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Spouse of Paralyzed Woman Denied Settlement Under Statute of Limitations

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An expired statute of limitations caused a US District Court Judge to nullify a $5 million judgement against the former American Cyanamid Co. (currently Wyeth Holdings Corp.)
 
The suit was filed by an Indiana man whose wife became a paraplegic in 1991 after contracting polio from a child who was given defective polio vaccine.
 
The woman, Cathy Price, had received a settlement under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 but that did not preclude her husband from suing for his own damages; however he filed that suit too late.

Clock expires on polio lawsuit

nwitimes.com - 3/17/2006 10:32 AM

A judge has dismissed a Lake Station man's lawsuit against a pharmaceutical company whose vaccine he blames for giving his wife polio 15 years ago.
 
Cathy Price has been paralyzed from the waist down since she awoke feeling numb in 1991. The once-active woman was one of 150 people in the nation who apparently contracted polio from a child who received a defectiv
 
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