Lawsuit Information Center
If you were hurt in Kentucky, you probably want two answers right away. How much is your personal injury case worth? How long do you have to do something about it?
Those are fair questions. They are also dangerous questions if you get the wrong answer. Kentucky has some rules that are generous to injury victims and some rules that are brutal. The most brutal rule is the general one-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims. If you are used to hearing that most states give you two or three years, Kentucky can surprise you in the worst possible way.
But Kentucky is not all bad for plaintiffs. Kentucky does not have the kind of broad personal injury damages cap you see in many states. Kentucky uses comparative fault, which means being partly at fault does not automatically kill your case. Kentucky has a relatively plaintiff-friendly dog bite statute. In car accident cases, Kentucky’s no-fault law creates its own system, with personal injury protection benefits and a separate timing rule that can give you more time than the general one-year deadline.