{"id":8715,"date":"2021-01-26T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T20:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/?page_id=8715"},"modified":"2024-04-30T16:04:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:04:54","slug":"how-long-do-i-have-to-file-a-personal-injury-case-in-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/how-long-do-i-have-to-file-a-personal-injury-case-in-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"How long do I have to file a personal injury case in Pennsylvania?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How long do I have to file a personal injury case in Pennsylvania?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/\">Personal injury cases<\/a> sometimes occur because of a negligent action of one person to another. The injured party may want to file a lawsuit to get compensation for their injuries, damages and medical expenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statute of limitations is the legal deadline to file a lawsuit. State statutes set different time limits for different types of cases. For a personal injury case, in which the at-fault party causes injury due to neglect, the victim party has two years from the date of the accident to file a lawsuit to recover damages. If an injured person does not file within two years after the accident, then they may lose their right to file a lawsuit against the at-fault party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Other Personal Injury FAQs:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"list-pages-shortcode sibling-pages\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-8712\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/how-do-i-know-if-i-have-a-personal-injury-case\/\">How do I know if I have a personal injury case?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-8715\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/how-long-do-i-have-to-file-a-personal-injury-case-in-pennsylvania\/\">How long do I have to file a personal injury case in Pennsylvania?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-8726\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/how-long-does-it-take-to-settle-a-personal-injury-lawsuit-in-pennsylvania\/\">How long does it take to settle a personal injury lawsuit in Pennsylvania?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-8717\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/how-much-is-my-personal-injury-case-worth\/\">How much is my personal injury case worth?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-8756\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/how-much-time-do-i-have-to-file-a-personal-injury-lawsuit\/\">How much time do I have to file a personal injury lawsuit?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-8815\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/what-is-a-personal-injury\/\">What is a personal injury?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-8804\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/faqs\/why-hire-a-personal-injury-attorney\/\">Why hire a personal injury attorney?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long do I have to file a personal injury case in Pennsylvania? Personal injury cases sometimes occur because of a negligent action of one person to another. The injured party may want to file a lawsuit to get compensation for their injuries, damages and medical expenses. The statute of limitations is the legal deadline&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":8710,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11604,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8715\/revisions\/11604"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}