cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Statutes of limitations by state: personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability and property damage, 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963806. Source: Probative, Statutes of limitations by state: personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability and property damage, version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963806, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Statutes of limitations by state: personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability and property damage"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-04
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23963806
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/research/statute-of-limitations-by-state/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "The filing deadline the statute sets for five kinds of civil claims in every US state and DC: personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, product liability and property damage. Each record gives the period in the statute's own words, the citation, a link to the state's official code site, a verbatim quote, and the date read; where the same text says so, it adds whether the period runs from discovery and any outer limit (statute of repose). Some cells come from a court opinion that quotes or applies the statute; they are marked S (secondary) and name the court, case and date. No calculator and no deadline arithmetic: tolling and exceptions apply."
keywords:
  - "statute of limitations by state"
  - "personal injury statute of limitations"
  - "medical malpractice statute of limitations"
  - "wrongful death statute of limitations"
  - "product liability statute of limitations"
  - "property damage statute of limitations"
  - "statute of repose"