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What discovery period applies to a qualifying Illinois product strict-liability claim?
Two calendar years after the qualifying discovery event, subject to the separate injury cap and prerequisites
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What does Illinois’s ten-year construction act-based provision measure?
Ten calendar years from the covered act or omission, as a component rather than an absolute final bar
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What extension applies when an Illinois defendant dies before the limitation period expires?
Six calendar months after death for the subsection (b) extension component
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What filing period applies to an Illinois childhood sexual abuse claim?
Current anytime provision with historical applicability conditions
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What is Illinois’s limitation period for slander, libel or publication-based privacy claims?
One calendar year after independently established accrual
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What is Illinois’s ordinary four-year medical malpractice act-based period?
Four calendar years from the causative act, omission or occurrence
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What is Illinois’s six-year attorney malpractice act-based period?
Six calendar years after the covered act or omission, subject to the statutory qualifications
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What is the ordinary Illinois personal-injury limitation period?
Two calendar years after independently established accrual
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What limitation rule applies when an Illinois claimant dies before the filing period expires?
The later of original expiration and one year after death, with statutory prerequisites
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What must I do after unknowingly suing a person who had died in Illinois?
Diligence requirements plus a two-year outside boundary after original expiration
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What starts Illinois’s ten-year limitation for written obligations?
Ten calendar years from the applicable established statutory event
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When and how may an Illinois claim be refiled after a qualifying dismissal?
Greater of one year after the qualifying disposition and remaining limitation time
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When does Illinois’s five-year residual limitation period expire?
Five calendar years after independently established accrual
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When does Illinois’s four-year construction discovery period expire?
Four calendar years after actual or reasonable knowledge of the covered act or omission
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When does Illinois’s fraudulent-concealment filing period run?
Five calendar years after the entitled person’s established discovery
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When does Illinois’s two-year attorney malpractice discovery period expire?
Two calendar years after actual or reasonable injury knowledge
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When does Illinois’s two-year medical malpractice discovery period expire?
Two calendar years from the earliest qualifying discovery or notice event
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When does the ordinary Illinois four-year sale-of-goods contract period end?
Four calendar years from established accrual
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When is an ordinary Illinois local-public-entity injury action due?
One calendar year after the governing injury or accrual event
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When is Illinois contribution or indemnity due after payment without an underlying suit?
Two calendar years after the qualifying payment
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When is Illinois contribution or indemnity due after the claimant files an action?
Two calendar years from the later independently established event
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When may an Illinois claimant sue after minority or legal disability at accrual ends?
Two calendar years after the applicable age or disability-removal event
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When must an Illinois derivative loss-of-consortium claim be filed?
The same applicable period as the underlying injury action
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When must I bring an Illinois attorney claim for injury first occurring at the client’s death?
Death, probate and professional-services boundaries require separate comparison