Hazel v. General Motors Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

HEYBURN, District Judge.

The Court must decide whether Defendant is entitled to protection of the one year statute of limitations applicable to products liability actions. In considering the difficult issues raised, the Court has received superb assistance from the fine memoranda and oral argument of counsel. Applying existing Kentucky law, Plaintiffs claim is barred. For Plaintiff to prevail this Court must conclude that Kentucky courts would expand the limited equitable tolling doctrine to encompass the circumstances of this case. The Court predicts that they would not do…