Statute of Limitations for Assault and Battery (intentional tort) in Kentucky

How the limitation period applies

The controlling primary authority for Kentucky statute of limitations for personal-injury actions (KRS 413.140(1)(a) — one year) is KRS 413.140.

KRS 413.140. 413.140 Actions to be brought within one year. (1) The following actions shall be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrued: (a) An action for an injury to the person of the plaintiff, or of her husband, his wife, child, ward, apprentice, or servant; (b) An action for injuries to persons, cattle, or other livestock by railroads or other corporations, with the exception of hospitals licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 216; (c) An action for malicious prosecution, conspiracy, arrest, seduction, criminal conversation, or breach of promise of marriage; (d) An action for libel or slander; (e) An action against a physician, surgeon, dentist, or hospital licensed pursuant to KRS Chapter 216, for negligence or malpractice; (f) A civil action, arising out of any act or omission in rendering, or failing to render, professional services for others, whether brought in tort or contract, against a real estate appraiser holding a certificate or license issued under KRS Chapter 324A or a real estate broker or sales associate holding a license issued under KRS Chapter 324; (g) An action for the escape of a prisoner, arrested or imprisoned on civil process; (h) An action for the recovery of usury paid for the loan or forbearance of money or other thing, against the loaner or forbearer or assignee of either; (i) An action for the recovery of stolen property, by the owner thereof against any person having the same in his possession; (j) An action for the recovery of damages or the value of stolen property, against the thief or any accessory; (k) An action arising out of a detention facility disciplinary proceeding, whether based upon state or federal law; (l) An action for damages arising out of a deficiency, defect, omission, error, or miscalculation in any survey or plat, whether brought in tort or contract, against a licensed professional land surveyor holding a license under KRS Chapter 322; (m) An action for violating KRS 311.782; and (n) An action for violating KRS 311.731.

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Sources

• KRS 413.140 — 413.140 Actions to be brought within one year.

All sources are official primary law published by apps.legislature.ky.gov (state legislature, .gov).

Corroboration method: Two independent WebFetch calls to https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=49037 returned PDFs with identical MD5 hash (7bf43a04638158da5da5405ae32dc9e6). Local pdftotext extraction of both PDFs produced byte-identical output (verified via diff). The verbatim_quote above is the unedited extracted text of the operative subsection (1) of KRS 413.140 from that PDF..