United States Seventh Circuit

In a product-liability suit alleging that plaintiff's artificial hip was defective, summary judgment for defendants under the statute of limitations is reversed where the statute began to run only when plaintiff should have realized that her injury might have been wrongfully caused, a factual question properly decided by a jury.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/16/2008
• Decided 08/01/2008
• Published 08/01/2008

Judges

• SYKES, Circuit Judge., Before MANION, WOOD, and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Stevens (argued), Heller, Holmes & Associates, Mattoon, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen L. Corn, Craig & Craig, Mattoon, IL, Robert M. Connolly (argued), Stites & Harbison, Louisville, KY, for Defendants-Appellees.