Lindsey v. A. H. Robins Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
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Niehoff, J.
On this appeal the principal issue we are called upon to decide is whether plaintiff Joyce Lindsey’s causes of action sounding in strict products liability against defendant A. H. Robins Company, Inc. accrued at the time of insertion of the product manufactured by Robins (a Daikon Shield intrauterine device) or at the time of onset of pelvic infection at which time Mrs. Lindsey sustained physical injury because of the allegedly defective product. For the reasons stated hereinafter, we conclude that such cause of action accrued as of the onset of the infection…
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