Statute of Limitations by State
How long do you have to file a claim? Pick an issue below to see the deadline for every state, each one sourced from the actual statute text and citation — not just copied from another chart.
Not legal advice — and missing this deadline can end your case. These are general filing deadlines under each state's statute. Your actual deadline can be shorter or longer: many states toll the clock for minors, apply a "discovery rule" when an injury isn't immediately obvious, or give you far less time to sue a government agency. Confirm your specific deadline with a licensed attorney in your state before relying on any date here.
- Car Accident 50 states
- Construction Defects 48 states
- Debt Collection 50 states
- Medical Malpractice 50 states
- Personal Injury 50 states
- Property Damage 50 states
- Unpaid Wages 50 states
- Wrongful Death 51 states
About this data: Each period and citation above was extracted by hand from the actual statute text in our
statutes database
(sourced from official government publishers via the
Open US Law dataset, Vaquill AI, CC BY 4.0)
and cross-checked against that text, rather than copied from another site's chart — where we found a state's citation didn't match what's commonly cited elsewhere (a recent law change, for example), we used the current statute. Where a state's source text isn't in our database yet, we say so instead of linking to something we haven't verified.