In an unpublished opinion from the Pennsylvania Superior Court handed down on August 31, 2023, a long-standing disagreement about the wording of Pennsylvania's Statute of Repose was finally resolved. In Pennsylvania, “a civil...more
In Mondoux v. Vanghel, No. 2018-219, 2021 R.I. LEXIS 2, 2021 WL 264542, the Supreme Court of Rhode Island considered whether to apply the “discovery rule” to toll the ten year statute of limitations in R.I. Laws § 9-1-13(a)...more
This article relates to personal injury limitations; there may be different limitations periods for other product liability claims (e.g., those that sound in warranty or fraud). Statutes of limitations and statutes of...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini discussed a case in which the plaintiffs sued Edward Jones alleging violations of various securities laws related to their investment in an annuity, which they had thought was joint...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Court recently ruled that North Carolina’s statutes of repose and limitations is trumped by Superfund’s discovery rule, under which the limitation period for filing a...more