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What Is The Statute Of Limitations?

 
The Statue of Limitations is the legal term that is used to define the amount of time a person has to file a personal injury lawsuit after the incident in which they were injured occurred. If an injured person does not file suit within the allotted time, they have lost their legal claim and cannot sue for damages at all.

All states have created their own statue of limitations anywhere from one year to six years according to the type of injury and claim. In some cases, if the suit is for defamation cases and the individual is under the age of 18, there can be a longer statue of limitations whereas medical malpractice suits may be a shorter time period.

State laws are revised every year and of course, the situation itself has quite a bit to do with the statue of limitations, however, at the time of this writing the statue of limitations for each state were:

Alabama - 2 years
Alaska - 2 years
Arizona - 2 years - 1 year for libel/slander
Arkansas - 3 years for libel and wrongful death - 2 years for medical malpractice and 1 year for slander
California - 2 years for intentional torts - 1 year for slander and libel
Colorado - 2 years - 1 year for libel and slander
Connecticut - 2 years
Delaware - 2 years
Dist of Columbia - 3 years - 1 year for libel and slander
Florida - 4 years - 2 years for medical malpractice and label or slander Title
Georgia - 2 years - 1 year for libel and slander
Hawaii - 2 years
Idaho - 2 years
Illinois - 2 years - 1 year for defamation
Indiana - 2 years
Iowa - 2 years
Kansas - 2 years - 1 year for libel and slander
Kentucky - 1 year
Louisiana - 1 year
Maine - 6 years - 2 years for libel and slander
Maryland - 3 years - 1 year for libel and slander
Massachusetts - 3 years
Michigan - 3 years - 1 year for libel and slander
Minnesota - 2 years
Mississippi - 3 years - 2 years for malpractice - 1 year for libel and slander
Missouri - 5 years - 2 years for libel and slander - 2 years for medical malpractice
Montana - 3 years - 2 years for libel and slander
Nebraska - 4 years - 1 year for libel and slander - 2 years for medical malpractice
Nevada - 2 years
New Hampshire - 3 years
New Jersey - 2 years - 1 year for libel and slander
New Mexico - 3 years
New York - 3 years - 2.5 years for medical malpractice - 1 year for libel and slander N. Carolina - 3 years - 1 year for libel and slander - 2 years for wrongful death
N. Dakota - 6 years - 2 years in wrongful death and libel/slander
Ohio - 2 years
Oklahoma - 2 years - 1 year for libel/slander
Oregon - 2 years for medical malpractice - 2 years for personal injury - 1 year libel/slander
Pennsylvania - 2 years - 1 year for libel/slander
Rhode Island - 3 years - 1 year for libel/slander
S. Carolina - 3 years - 2 years for libel/slander
S. Dakota - 3 years - 2 years for libel/slander and medical malpractice
Tennessee - 1 year - 6 months for libel/slander
Texas - 2 years - 1 year for libel/slander
Utah - 4 years - 2 years for wrongful death - 1 year for libel/slander
Vermont - 3 years
Virginia - 2 years - 1 year for libel/slander
Washington - 3 years - 1 year for libel/slander
West Virginia - 2 years
Wisconsin - 3 years - 2 years for libel/slander
Wyoming - 4 years - 1 year for liable/slander

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