Statute of Limitations Calculator: Filing Deadlines by State

How the Calculator Works

Every state sets, by statute, how long a person has to file a lawsuit. That period is the statute of limitations. The calculator takes your state’s period for the claim you pick and adds it to the date you enter.

Years and months are counted on the calendar. If the period ends on a day that does not exist in that month, the last day of the month is used: an injury on February 29 with a 2-year period runs out on February 28.

We verified 224 of the 255 state and claim combinations against the statute text. Each result shows the statute, a link to the official text and the date we verified it.

What the Result Means

The date uses a general lawsuit filing period, not every possible deadline to act. Each claim type shows the shortest period the statute sets for that claim, and the note names longer periods and exceptions.

For example, in New York personal injury shows 3 years (N.Y. CPLR 214), the period for a car crash or a fall, and the note says an assault has a shorter period. For an assault, choose intentional harm: it shows 1 year (N.Y. CPLR 215(3)).

The calculator never pushes the date later on its own. The discovery rule and tolling for minors can make it later, and notice-of-claim rules for claims against a government body can make it much earlier. Those rules appear as notes next to the result.

Worked Examples

A person is hurt in a car crash in Texas on March 15, 2026. Texas gives 2 years (Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003), so the general lawsuit filing date calculated here is March 15, 2028.

If the injury happened on February 29, 2024, a leap day, counting 2 years from it gives February 28, 2026, because that year has no February 29.

In New York the medical malpractice period is 2 years 6 months (N.Y. CPLR 214-a). For treatment on August 31, 2025, the general filing date calculated here is February 29, 2028.

Statute of Limitations by State

These are the periods the calculator uses. Each state links to our statute of limitations guide for that state, which covers other claims and the exceptions. Our statute of limitations guide for the United States brings every state together.

* Verification at the state’s official site is pending. † The source is an archived copy of the code, not the official site. Each result’s note names longer periods and exceptions.

Where We Have Not Verified a Period

For these combinations the calculator does not compute a date. In most of them the period comes from court decisions rather than statute text we can quote; for Oregon property damage and medical malpractice and for Maine medical malpractice, the statute is not in our database yet. For intentional harm, a gap means the statute text we have has no clause naming assault, battery or false imprisonment; those claims may fall under the state’s general injury period, shown under personal injury. Claims based on sexual assault or abuse usually have their own rules, often with much longer periods.

• Personal injury: Arkansas, District of Columbia.
• Property damage: Oregon.
• Wrongful death: Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Washington.
• Medical malpractice: District of Columbia, Maine, Oregon.
• Intentional harm (assault, battery, false imprisonment): Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia.