2011 Vermont Code
Title 14 Decedents' Estates and Fiduciary Relations
Chapter 71 ACTIONS BY AND AGAINST EXECUTORS AND ADMINISTRATOR
§ 1452 When actions for personal injury survive
§ 1452. When actions for personal injury survive
In an action for the recovery of damages for a bodily hurt or injury, occasioned to the plaintiff by the act or default of the defendant or defendants, if either party dies during the pendency of such action, the action shall survive and may be prosecuted to final judgment by or against the executors or administrators of such deceased party. When there are several defendants in such action, and one or more, but not all, die, it shall be prosecuted against the surviving defendant or defendants, and against the estate of the deceased defendant or defendants. (Amended 1977, No. 120 (Adj. Sess.), { 1, eff. Feb. 9, 1978.)
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