Zimmer Backs Motion for Summary Judgment, Maintains Position that Durom Cup Claims Are Time-Barred
March 13, 2015
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- Reply Brief
TRENTON, N.J. –– Zimmer has backed its motion for summary judgment in a Durom Cup lawsuit, maintaining its position that, under Utah’s Product Liability Act, the statute of limitations begins to run when the plaintiff knows the potential cause of harm.
The statute specifically begins to run, the defendant said in its March 5 brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, when the plaintiff knows the potential cause of harm, not the cause of the loosening.
Maryann Ruttenbur contended in her lawsuit that she was implanted with the Durom Cup in Jan. 2007. …