Abbott, AbbVie Defeat Long-Running Lupron Bone, Joint Suit (1)

A Georgia resident who sued Abbott Laboratories over joint and bone damage she attributed to its synthetic hormone Lupron, then dropped her suit and refiled it 11 years after her injections, can’t escape a time bar under that state’s law, a federal court in Illinois ruled.

An exception to Georgia’s 10-year statute of repose doesn’t save Terry Paulsen’s failure-to-warn claim against Abbott and a manufacturing company’s successor, AbbVie Inc., because it applies only to negligence-based claims, not the strict liability warning claim she brought, Judge John F. Kness said Tuesday for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District ...