SB 853 - Currently, actions for personal injury shall be brought within five years from the time the injury occurred. This act states that actions for personal injury are to be brought within two years from the time the injury occurred. Additionally, current actions against an insurer relating to uninsured motorist coverage or underinsured motorist coverage, including any action to enforce such coverage, are to be brought within ten years. This act modifies the statute of limitations for such actions to be brought within two years. Currently, all assault and battery actions are to be brought within two years. This act provides that actions for assault, battery, or personal injury based on certain sexual offenses shall be brought within five years.

This act is identical to provisions in SB 117 (2023), SB 708 (2023), in SCS/SB 631 (2022), in SB 1243 (2022), in HCS/SCS/SB 119 (2021), and in HCS/HB 922 (2021), and is similar to HB 272 (2023), HB 2206 (2022), provisions in SS/SB 3 (2021), HB 855 (2021), SB 633 (2020), SB 96 (2019), and SB 934 (2018).

KATIE O'BRIEN