Berrios v. Miles, Inc

This products liability case presents a single issue: When does a cause of action concerning the contraction of the human immunodeficiency virus (mv) accrue? This issue is of first impression to our state courts. The circuit court ruled that plaintiffs claim accrued when plaintiff learned that he had tested positive for mv and that the period of limitation applicable to his claim had therefore expired before plaintiff filed the present lawsuit. Plaintiff appeals as of right the court’s subsequent grant of summary dis position for defendant on the basis of this finding. We affirm.

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