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Personal Injury Statute of Limitations by State

Select your state to see how long you have to file a personal injury claim — or scroll down for the full table, every deadline linked to its official statute.

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.

All 50 states

State Deadline Citation
Alabama 2 years Ala. Code § 6-2-38(l)
Alaska 2 years Alaska Stat. § 09.10.070
Arizona 2 years A.R.S. § 12-542
California 2 years Cal. Civ. Proc. Code § 335.1
Colorado 2 years C.R.S. § 13-80-102
Connecticut 2 years Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-584
Delaware 2 years 10 Del. C. § 8119
District of Columbia 3 years D.C. Code § 12-301(8)
Florida 2 years Fla. Stat. § 95.11(5)(a)
Georgia 2 years Ga. Code Ann. § 9-3-33
Hawaii 2 years Haw. Rev. Stat. § 657-7
Idaho 2 years Idaho Code § 5-219
Illinois 2 years 735 ILCS 5/13-202
Indiana 2 years Ind. Code § 34-11-2-4
Iowa 2 years Iowa Code § 614.1(2)
Kansas 2 years K.S.A. § 60-513(a)(4)
Kentucky 1 year KRS § 413.140
Louisiana 2 years La. Civ. Code art. 3493.1
Maine 6 years 14 M.R.S. § 752
Maryland 3 years Md. Code, Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 5-101
Massachusetts 3 years Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 260, § 2A
Michigan 3 years Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5805(2)
Minnesota 2 years Minn. Stat. § 541.07(1)
Mississippi 3 years Miss. Code Ann. § 15-1-49
Missouri 5 years Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.120
Montana 3 years Mont. Code Ann. § 27-2-204(1)
Nebraska 4 years Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-207
Nevada 2 years Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.190(4)(e)
New Hampshire 3 years N.H. Rev. Stat. § 508:4
New Jersey 2 years N.J. Stat. § 2A:14-2
New Mexico 3 years N.M. Stat. § 37-1-8
New York 3 years N.Y. CPLR § 214(5)
North Carolina 3 years N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-52(16)
North Dakota 6 years N.D. Cent. Code § 28-01-16(5)
Ohio 2 years Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10(A)
Oklahoma 2 years Okla. Stat. tit. 12, § 95(3)
Oregon 2 years Or. Rev. Stat. § 12.110(1)
Pennsylvania 2 years 42 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 5524
Rhode Island 3 years R.I. Gen. Laws § 9-1-14(b)
South Carolina 3 years S.C. Code Ann. § 15-3-530
South Dakota 3 years S.D. Codified Laws § 15-2-14(3)
Tennessee 1 year Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104
Texas 2 years Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003
Utah 4 years Utah Code § 78B-2-307(4)
Vermont 3 years 12 V.S.A. § 512
Virginia 2 years Va. Code Ann. § 8.01-243(A)
Washington 3 years RCW § 4.16.080
West Virginia 2 years W. Va. Code § 55-2-12(a)
Wisconsin 3 years Wis. Stat. § 893.54(1m)(a)
Wyoming 4 years Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-105(a)(iv)(C)
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.