Baptist Hosp. of Miami, Inc. v. Carter

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• finding a triable issue as to the estate’s estoppel to claim the limitations defense where the decedent’s surviv- or actively misled a hospital into believing that the decedent left no estate from which to collect outstanding bills
• section 733.710, Florida Statutes, which mandates that creditors' claims against estate be filed within two years of decedent's death, is a statute of limitations
• section 733.710 is a statute of limitation, and estate could be estopped from asserting limitation as a defense to untimely claim
• \It is well settled ... as a general rule... that fraud or misrepresentation that misleads a claimant into a justified failure to assert his rights bars reliance on a statute of limitations.\
• \It is well settled ... as a general rule... that fraud or misrepresentation which misleads a claimant into a justified failure to assert his rights bars reliance on a statute of limitations.\
• \It is well settled ... as a general rule ... that fraud or misrepresentation that misleads a claimant into a justified failure to assert his rights bars reliance on a statute of limitations.\

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