Trasylol Claims are Time-Barred, Federal Judge Rules

MIAMI - A Florida federal judge has granted Bayer Corp. summary judgment on Trasylol injury claims, ruling that they are time-barred because the plaintiff was aware of his post-surgery renal injuries in 2004 - four years before filing suit. Putnam v. Bayer Corp., No. 08-81432 (S.D. Fla.).

On May 27, Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court for the District of Miami ruled that the three-year limitations period began to run when the injury, not the cause of the injury, was discovered or should have been discovered.

In August 2004, Johnny Putnam received Trasylol during quintuple coronary artery …