Joanna Digioia, Vincent Digioia v. H. Koch & Sons, Division of Wickes Manufacturing Company, a Delaware Corporation

The plaintiffs-appellants, Joanna and Vincent Digioia appeal the grant of a sum mary judgment by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in favor of the defendant-appellee, H. Koch & Sons (Koch), in a products liability suit. The district court concluded that the cause of action arose in California and, applying Florida’s “borrowing statute,” held that California’s one-year statute of limitations barred the prosecution of the action for injuries to the plaintiff, Joanna Digioia, filed almost two years later. Finding no error in the district court’s analysis, we…