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PENNWALT CORP. v. NASIOS

Misc. No. 20, September Term, 1986.

314 Md. 433 (1988)

550 A.2d 1155

PENNWALT CORPORATION v. EVANGELIA NASIOS ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James K. Archibald, Jeffrey A. Dunn, Maryruth Vollstedt and Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, and Larry R. O'Neal, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, Mo., all on the brief, for appellant.

Victor E. Schwartz, Liberty Mahshigian, Kathryn Kelly and Crowell & Moring, Bruce J. Brennan, Geoffrey R.W. Smith, on the brief, Washington, D.C., amicus curiae for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Ass'n.

Eugene J. Yannon, Bowie, Edward P. Camus, Riverdale, both on the brief, for appellees.

Michael A. Pretl, H. Robert Erwin, Jr. and Pretl & Erwin, P.A., on the brief, Baltimore, amicus curiae, for Maryland Trial Lawyers Ass'n, Inc.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE, and ADKINS, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired) Specially Assigned.

COLE, Judge.

In this case we are asked to determine when an action accrues in a medical products liability case. Pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, Maryland Code (1984), §§ 12-601 to 12-609 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland certified the following question of state law for our consideration.

Whether under the discovery rule, knowledge of the manufacturer...

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