Man's Knowledge of His Wife's Drug-Related Injury Cannot Be Imputed to Timeliness of Her Claims

FRESNO, Calif. - A motion for summary judgment filed by two drug companies was granted in part and denied in part by a federal judge, who found that a husband's suspicion that his wife's neuropathy was caused by her ingestion of high doses of Prevacid triggered the discovery rule, and that his claims were barred by California's one-year statute of limitations. Susan McAnelly and George McAnelly v. Tap Pharmaceuticals, et al. No. 02-2357-MCE-DAD (C.D. Calif.).

U.S. District Judge Mariott C. England's Dec. 15 opinion granted the companies' motion in regard to the husband's claims, while denying summary judgment on the …