Claim deadline checker in Tennessee
How long you have to file a personal injury claim after a crash, in your state, with the statute it comes from and the date it was last checked.
- Deadline to file an injury claim
- 1 year, or 2 years if criminal charges are brought
- Statute
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-104
- When the clock starts
- One year after the cause of action accrued.
- Watch out for
- This is the shortest deadline of any state on this list and it catches people out constantly. Most guides written for a national audience say two years, and in Tennessee that advice will cost you the claim. The two-year version applies only where criminal charges are brought against the person alleged to have caused the injury and the claim is brought against that person.
Source: Tennessee Code Annotated § 28-3-104: "the following actions shall be commenced within one (1) year after the cause of action accrued: (A) Actions for libel, injuries to the person …", extended to two years where "[c]riminal charges are brought against any person alleged to have caused or contributed to the injury" and the action is brought by the injured person against the party prosecuted. Read on FindLaw's unofficial copy.. Verified September 23, 2026. Information, not legal advice.