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Civil & Personal Injury Actions

Nevada

Personal Injury: Two years
Product Liability: Four years
Professional Malpractice: Legal malpractice, four years. Veterinary malpractice, four years. Medical malpractice actions must be filed within three years of the date of the act or omission giving rise to the injury, or within one year of the date the injury was or should have been discovered, whichever is earlier.
Injury to Personal Property: Three years
Fraud: Three years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: Two years
Contracts: Written: six years; Oral: four years

New Hampshire

Personal Injury: Three years
Product Liability: Three years from the date of injury, or within three years of the date the plaintiff discovered or reasonably should have discovered the injury. However, regardless of the date of discovery, all product liability actions must be commenced within twelve years of the date a product was manufactured or sold.
Professional Malpractice: New Hampshire still has a statutory limitations period for medical malpractice, two years from the date of the act or omission giving rise to the injury, except that where the action is based upon discovery of a foreign object in the body of the injured person which is not discovered and could not reasonably have been discovered within the two-year period, the action may be commenced within two years of the date the object was or reasonably should have been discovered. discovery or of the date of discovery of facts which would reasonably lead to discovery. However, this limitations period has been held unconstitutional by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, so the three year personal injury limitations period is applied.
Injury to Personal Property: Three years
Fraud: Three years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: Three years
Contracts: Written contracts under seal, 20 years

New Jersey

Personal Injury: Two years
Product Liability: Product liability claims must be commenced within two years from the date of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint, or two years from the date the injury was or reasonably should have been discovered.
Professional Malpractice: Medical malpractice claims must be commenced within two years from the date of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint, or two years from the date the injury was or reasonably should have been discovered.
Injury to Personal Property: Six years
Fraud: Six years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: One year
Contracts: 6 years

New Mexico

Personal Injury: Three years
Product Liability: Product liability claims must be commenced within three years from the date of the act or omission giving rise to the complaint, or three years from the date the injury was or reasonably should have been discovered.
Professional Malpractice: Professional negligence actions, including medical malpractice lawsuits, must be filed within three years.
Injury to Personal Property: Four years
Fraud: Four years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: Three years
Contracts: Written: six years; Oral: four years

New York

Personal Injury: Three years
Product Liability: Three years
Professional Malpractice: Medical malpractice actions must be filed within thirty months of the date of the act or omission that gave rise to the injury occurred. For malpractice actions based upon the presence of a foreign object within the body of a patient, the action must be filed within one year of the date that the foreign object was or should have been discovered. Other professional negligence actions are governed by a three year statute of limitations.
Injury to Personal Property: Three years
Fraud: Six years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: One year
Contracts: Six years

North Carolina

Personal Injury: Negligence claims must be filed within three years of the date upon which bodily harm caused by the negligent act is or should have been apparent, whichever occurs first. However, all negligence claims must be commenced within ten years of the act giving rise to the injury, regardless of the date of discovery.
Product Liability: Six years from date of purchase.
Professional Malpractice: Medical malpractice actions must be commenced within two years of the act or omission giving rise to the injury, or within two years of the date of discovery, to a maximum of four years following the date of the act or omission. Medical malpractice actions for objects left inside the body may be commenced within one year of the date of discovery, to a maximum of ten years after the date of the act giving rise to the injury.
Injury to Personal Property Three years
Fraud Three years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: One year
Contracts: Three years

North Dakota

Personal Injury: Two years
Product Liability: Ten years after the initial purchase of the product, or eleven years after the date of manufacture. This limitation period applies to minors.
Professional Malpractice: Professional negligence actions, including medical malpractice lawsuits, must be filed within two years of the date giving rise to the injury, or within two years of the date that the injury was or should have been discovered. Medical malpractice actions may not be commenced more than six years after the act or omission giving rise to the injury.
Injury to Personal Property: Six years
Fraud: Six years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: Two years
Contracts: Six years

Ohio

Personal Injury: Two years for actions involving bodily injury; otherwise one year.
Product Liability: Two years
Professional Malpractice: In medical malpractice actions, the plaintiff must provide notice to the defendants within one year of the act or omission giving rise to the injury. The lawsuit may be filed 180 days after notice is given, and service of the notice tolls the statute of limitations by 180 days. Medical malpractice actions based upon the presence of a foreign object inside the body must be filed within one year of the date the object is, or should have been, discovered, and may not be filed more than four years after the act resulting in the presence of the foreign object regardless of when the object is discovered.
Injury to Personal Property: Two years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: One year
Contracts: Written: 15 years; Oral: 6 years; Sales Contract: 4 years

Oklahoma

Personal Injury: Two years
Product Liability: Two years
Professional Malpractice: Professional negligence actions, including medical malpractice lawsuits, must be filed within two years.
Injury to Personal Property: Two years
Fraud: Two years
Libel - Slander - Defamation: One year
Contracts: Written: five years; Oral: three years

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