BURGESS v. ELI LILLY & CO.

No. 92-480.

66 Ohio St.3d 59 (1993)

BURGESS ET AL. v. ELI LILLY AND COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Ohio.

Decided April 7, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gianuglou, Dankof, Caras & Hruska, Sam G. Caras and Michael R. Pentecost, for petitioners.

Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Andrew B. See and Mark C. Hegarty; Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur and Thomas Hays Pyper, for respondent.


PFEIFER, J.

We answer the three questions together by responding that the provision of R.C. 2305.10 regarding the accrual date of a cause of action for DES-related injuries is unconstitutional. A cause of action based upon DES exposure accrues only when the plaintiff has been informed by competent medical authority that she has been injured by DES, or upon the date on which, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, she should have known that she has been so injured...

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