Personal Injury · California

Is the filing deadline still open?

Enter what you know about a personal-injury matter and get the California statute-of-limitations deadline that generally applies — each one cited to the controlling statute. When a date can't be proven from the facts given, it says so rather than guess. Built to help a firm triage intake; it organizes and flags. It is not legal advice.

Private by design. This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is uploaded, stored, or sent to a server. California only in this version — other states are not yet modeled and will return “cannot determine.”

The matter

Claim

Type of claim

Date of injury (accrual)

For medical malpractice this is the date of the injury itself; the discovery date below can shorten the deadline.

Parties

Injured person’s date of birth (optional)

If the injured person was a minor when hurt, the deadline is tolled — provide this to compute it.

Is a government / public entity a defendant?

A government defendant requires a written claim within 6 months — a hard precondition before any lawsuit.

What the statute says

Enter the matter on the left and select Check the deadline. Anything that can’t be grounded in California authority is returned as “cannot determine,” never a guess.