What discovery period applies to a qualifying Illinois product strict-liability claim?

Identify the strict-liability-in-tort theory and use the official operative text without P.A. 89-7 changes.

Establish actual or reasonable knowledge and the injury date separately.

Verify injury occurred within the applicable referenced product period and calculate the separate eight-year injury cap.

1. Identify the strict-liability-in-tort theory and use the official operative text without P.A. 89-7 changes.
2. Count two calendar years from actual or reasonable knowledge. Section 13-213(d) also states an eight-year period after injury. The preset does not collect the product sale, alteration or injury dates needed for those separate checks.
3. Check the final weekend, statutory holiday and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Commence the qualifying product action and preserve injury, knowledge, initial sale or delivery, initial non-seller use, alteration and any warranty evidence relevant to the statutory branches.

Section 1.11 excludes a final Saturday, Sunday or statutory holiday and consecutive excluded days. Section 17(a) of the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act includes Pulaski Day, Good Friday and the general election for members of the House of Representatives. Check proclamations, the proper court’s actual calendar and clerk access separately. The bundled Illinois calendar covers 2026 and 2027.

Fictitious example

Use the operative strict-liability discovery component only after confirming injury within the referenced subsection (b) or (c)(2) period. Independently check the eight-year injury cap and minority or disability branch. Fictitious statutory event, independently established under the precise scope stated in this guide. Use the operative strict-liability discovery component only after confirming injury within the referenced subsection (b) or (c)(2) period. Independently check the eight-year injury cap and minority or disability branch.

Fictitious qualifying strict-liability claim. Injury within the product period and a later eight-year cap are independently established. This computes discovery only.

The operative edition has narrower scope

The official statute displays both versions and labels the P.A. 89-7 changes unconstitutional. The operative subsection (a)(3) and (b) concern strict liability in tort, rather than every theory or doctrine.

Injury must satisfy the referenced product periods

Subsection (d) requires injury within a period provided by subsection (b) or paragraph (c)(2). Subsection (b) compares twelve years from first seller sale or delivery and ten years to the initial non-seller, with the stated longer-promise qualification.

The injury cap is a separate input

Subsection (d) states that the action must not be brought more than eight years after the injury, death or property damage. A discovery result alone does not establish compliance with that cap.

Minority or disability at injury needs its own branch

The subsection addresses a person under eighteen or under legal disability when injury occurred. Its period does not begin until eighteen or disability removal. Do not assume the ordinary adult calculation covers those facts.

Alteration and replacement do not share one trigger

Subsection (c) has specific seller involvement and alteration qualifications. Under operative subsection (e), a substitute component with the same formula or design does not automatically restart the product period.

• This calculation does not determine whether relief is available or whether the facts satisfy the statute.
• A current statutory edition does not establish the law for every historical claim. Preserve the applicable edition and actual orders.

• Identify the strict-liability-in-tort theory and use the official operative text without P.A. 89-7 changes.
• Establish actual or reasonable knowledge and the injury date separately.
• Verify injury occurred within the applicable referenced product period and calculate the separate eight-year injury cap.
• The official statute displays both versions and labels the P.A. 89-7 changes unconstitutional. The operative subsection (a)(3) and (b) concern strict liability in tort, rather than every theory or doctrine.
• Subsection (d) requires injury within a period provided by subsection (b) or paragraph (c)(2). Subsection (b) compares twelve years from first seller sale or delivery and ten years to the initial non-seller, with the stated longer-promise qualification.
• Subsection (d) states that the action must not be brought more than eight years after the injury, death or property damage. A discovery result alone does not establish compliance with that cap.
• The subsection addresses a person under eighteen or under legal disability when injury occurred. Its period does not begin until eighteen or disability removal. Do not assume the ordinary adult calculation covers those facts.
• Subsection (c) has specific seller involvement and alteration qualifications. Under operative subsection (e), a substitute component with the same formula or design does not automatically restart the product period.
• Commence the qualifying product action and preserve injury, knowledge, initial sale or delivery, initial non-seller use, alteration and any warranty evidence relevant to the statutory branches. File with the proper clerk in the required format. Rule 9 ordinarily requires civil electronic filing, subject to its exceptions and exemptions. Rule 9(f) ordinarily requires submission before midnight in the court time zone unless a statute, rule or actual order specifies a different time. A submission on a closed clerk day ordinarily receives the next open-day stamp. Preserve the actual electronic file mark, receipt and any filing-relief order. Filing and service are distinct acts.