Olsen v. BELL TELEPHONE LABORATORIES, W. ELECTRIC CO.

How courts have described this case

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• distinguishing a claim that relates to a single disease from one that involves successive, but distinct, injuries
• rejecting plaintiff's argument that his claim accrued only when he knew the permanency of his condition
• dis-tinguishing a claim that relates to a single disease from one that involves successive, but distinct, injuries
• rejecting plaintiff’s argument that his claim accrued only when he knew the permanency of his condition
• cause of action accrues on discovery of any injury rather than on discovery that injury is permanent
• “If knowledge of the extent of injury were to control the accrual of a cause of action, the fixed time period of statutes of limitations effectively would be destroyed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).