Krevitz v. City of Philadelphia

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• holding a defendant is estopped from invoking the bar of a statute of limitations “[w]here, ‘through fraud or concealment, the defendant causes the plaintiff to relax his vigilance or deviate from his right of inquiry’ ….”
• holding a defendant is estopped from invoking the bar of a statute of limitations “[w]here, ‘through fraud or concealment, the defendant causes the plaintiff to relax his vigilance or deviate from his right of inquiry*— ”
• discovery rule cannot be employed to extend the time for filing a wrongful death and survival action beyond the two year statute of limitations
• “After an exhaustive review of the voluminous record in this case, we have found no evidence which would exonerate Krevitz from her duty to exercise reasonable diligence in discovering the possibility of a design defect prior to the expiration of the statute of limitations.”

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