Appeals Court Finds UCL Claims Timely, Reverses Summary Judgment

LOS ANGELES - A California appellate court ordered a trial court to vacate summary judgment awarded to the manufacturer of fen-phen, after finding that the plaintiff's two causes of action for violations of the state's Business and Professions Code were not barred by the four-year statute of limitations. Smith v. American Home Products Corp. et al., No. B163861 (Calif. Ct. App., 2nd Dist.).

But in an unpublished opinion entered April 12, the Fifth Division of California's Second District Court of Appeal agreed with the trial court's finding that Lorraine Smith's strict liability, negligence, negligence per se, breaches of express and …