Bartman v. Estate of Bartman

Holding

The court held that a cause of action for personal injuries accrued at the time of the wrongful act, not when a subsequent judicial decision removed a statutory bar to recovery, and that the subsequent enactment of Probate Code section 721, which provides an independent civil action against an estate to the limits of insurance coverage, could not be applied retroactively to revive a claim previously barred by the failure to file a timely creditor’s claim.