Jan 12, 2010
Pa. Court Revives Plaintiff Verdict in State’s First Precedential Hormone-Replacement Case
In Pennsylvania’s first precedent-setting decision regarding mass tort litigation involving hormone replacement therapy, the Superior Court has revived a plaintiff’s lawsuit by finding that the plaintiff was entitled to an exception to the two-year statute of limitations because she couldn’t have reasonably known of an alleged link between her breast cancer and HRT drugs before the publication of a widely publicized study. The case is one of about 1,500 HRT cases filed in Philadelphia courts.