Personal Injury and Statutes of Limitation
If you are looking to file a personal injury case, you need to know what the statute of limitations is and what it means to you. The statute of limitations provides a timeline for filing any personal injury cases. It essentially makes it so that someone could not sue someone else for personal injury whenever the feel like it. It puts an exact deadline on when to file a case. Each state has its own statute of limitations, and each one is slightly different. Every year people lose money because they wait too long to file their case, and there is nothing they can do about it at that point.
For the most part, personal injury cases have a two-year limitation. There are some exceptions however. For instance, in Florida you have four years to file a personal injury case. Another exception is Maine and North Dakota, where you have six years to file! Every state gives you at least two years to file, except for Tennessee, Kentucky, and Louisiana, where you only have one year to file. An exception to all the rules is libel or slander, and for the most part, states take whatever their personal injury limitation is, and cut it in half. For example, Georgia has two years for personal injury, and one year for libel or slander.
