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A 3 page paper discussing implications of this topic. The statutes of limitations for many types of civic cases in North Carolina are listed in Chapter 1, Article 5 of the North Carolina General Statutes, sections 1-46 through 1-55. Limits range from six months to ten years, depending on the type of case being considered. For personal injury cases, the statute of limitations is three years (Section 1-52). Bibliography lists 1 source.
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File: CC6_KSncPersInjLimit.rtf
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The statutes of limitations for many types of civic cases in North Carolina are listed in Chapter 1, Article 5 of the North Carolina General Statutes, sections 1-46
through 1-55. Limits range from six months to ten years, depending on the type of case being considered. For personal injury cases, the statute of limitations is three
years (Section 1-52). Types of Complaints None of the limitation periods listed in Article 5 apply to recovery of real property.
All of the limitations assigned to the three-year classification of section 1-47 involve actions between individuals or businesses that do not cross into criminal activity.
It is paragraph 16 of section 1-47 that directly applies to personal injury, but it is qualified by other conditions. The law reads: (16) Unless otherwise
provided by statute, for personal injury or physical damage to claimants property, the cause of action, except in causes of actions referred to in G.S. 1-15(c), shall not accrue until
bodily harm to the claimant or physical damage to his property becomes apparent or ought reasonably to have become apparent to the claimant, whichever event first occurs. Provided that no
cause of action shall accrue more than 10 years from the last act or omission of the defendant giving rise to the cause of action (General Statute 1-52 (16)).
The G.S. 1-15(c) referenced above refers to cases of malpractice. The law states "professional malpractice," but clearly is intended to primarily address medical
malpractice in that it also mentions a "foreign object, which has no therapeutic or diagnostic purpose or effect, having been left in the body."
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