Court Finds Utah Worker Waited Too Long to Sue Over Possible Nerve Gas Exposure

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah state worker who experienced neurological symptoms soon after working on a wildlife project near a military testing site in 1997 should have been aware of possible exposure to nerve agents at least by 2005, making her 2008 administrative claim untimely, a federal judge has ruled. Bayless v. United States of America, et al., No. 2:09-CV-495-DAK (D. Utah).

Judge Dale A. Kimball of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah granted the United States’ motion for summary judgment May 17, citing the two-year statute of limitations under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

Carolyn …