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· 9/12/1980

Helen J. Stoleson v. United States

Citations

  • 629 F.2d 1265
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 14157

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  • limitations period under Federal Tort Claims Act did not begin until plaintiff learned of new research establishing previously unknowable causal connection between her cardiovascular problems and occupational exposure to nitroglycerine.
  • plaintiff’s claim did not accrue in 1969 when she merely suspected the cause, but in 1971 when medical science first recognized the causal connection between her work with nitroglycerin and her angina attacks

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Judges: Fairchild, Pell, Wood

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