Opinion ID: 1172230
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Difficulty in determining identity of defendants

Text: The Sammises also cite the difficulty in determining the proper defendants in complex products liability actions. This factor, however, is irrelevant to a good cause determination in the instant case. The relevant time period to consider is March 18 through September 18, 1994. The four respondents at issue (Gould, Cadet, IPC, and Pink's) were named in the Sammises' amended complaint. This is not a case, then, where the defendants' identities were not discovered until after the six-month period had expired. Their identities were known on March 18, 1994, at the start of the relevant time frame. The complexity of a products liability action thus cannot account for or excuse the Sammises' untimely service of these respondents.