What is New York’s nonmedical professional-malpractice period?

Identify a malpractice claim within CPLR 214(6), with established accrual and no applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll.

Paragraph (6) expressly excludes medical, dental and podiatric malpractice. Those claims require section 214-a review.

The stated period applies regardless of whether the underlying theory sounds in contract or tort. Calling the same malpractice claim a contract claim does not establish six years.

A disputed accrual date, continued engagement or claimed toll needs its own authority and factual review. This preset does not resolve those questions.

1. Identify a malpractice claim within CPLR 214(6), with established accrual and no applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll.
2. Count the selected calendar-month or calendar-year interval from the independently established event. General Construction Law 20 excludes the event day, sections 30 and 58 govern months and years, and section 25-a permits the next succeeding business day when an authorized statutory act ends on Saturday, Sunday or a public holiday.
3. Check the final statutory holiday and weekend independently.
4. Preserve the actual commencement record and complete required service. Filing and service are separate acts.

For an authorized statutory act, General Construction Law 25-a permits the next succeeding business day if the final day is Saturday, Sunday or a statutory public holiday. Section 24 defines those holidays. Sunday Independence Day in 2027 is observed on Monday July 5. Confirm other actual closures separately.

The calculators accept selected events after November 3, 2020. They do not apply the 2020 executive-order toll. Brash distinguishes a toll from a suspension. Historical events require separate review and receive no calculated or paid date here. Do not add 228 days to every historical event without testing its actual applicability.

Fictitious example

Identify a malpractice claim within CPLR 214(6), with established accrual and no applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll. Fictitious established facts. Identify a malpractice claim within CPLR 214(6), with established accrual and no applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll. The selected event is August 2, 2024. No applicable toll, shorter agreement, alternative branch or additional closure is assumed.

Fictitious established facts. This example applies only to the stated component. The calculator does not determine accrual, reasonable discovery, qualifying treatment, a toll or whether a claim is timely.

Contract or tort theory

The paragraph expressly applies the same period regardless of either underlying theory.

Medical classification

Section 214-a has different periods and specific treatment and discovery provisions.

Actual accrual and toll

Section 203(a) uses accrual to interposition unless otherwise prescribed. Establish the legal event independently.

Historical executive-order toll

The calculators accept selected events after November 3, 2020. They do not apply the 2020 executive-order toll. Brash distinguishes a toll from a suspension. Historical events require separate review and receive no calculated or paid date here. Do not add 228 days to every historical event without testing its actual applicability.

• Preserve the applicable edition and establish the actual statutory facts independently.
• This calculation supplies the disclosed component and does not select every alternative period or apply an unmodeled toll.

• Identify a malpractice claim within CPLR 214(6), with established accrual and no applicable toll. This calculator accepts events after November 3, 2020 and does not apply any toll.
• Paragraph (6) expressly excludes medical, dental and podiatric malpractice. Those claims require section 214-a review.
• The stated period applies regardless of whether the underlying theory sounds in contract or tort. Calling the same malpractice claim a contract claim does not establish six years.
• A disputed accrual date, continued engagement or claimed toll needs its own authority and factual review. This preset does not resolve those questions.
• The paragraph expressly applies the same period regardless of either underlying theory.
• Section 214-a has different periods and specific treatment and discovery provisions.
• Section 203(a) uses accrual to interposition unless otherwise prescribed. Establish the legal event independently.
• Preserve the actual commencement record and complete required service. Filing and service are separate acts. CPLR 304 governs commencement by the required initiating filing. In the applicable NYSCEF program, 22 NYCRR 202.5-b(d)(3)(i) uses recorded transmission and the required fee information or permitted later actual payment. Transmission is permitted any day or night. Preserve the actual recorded filing and fee event. Check county, action eligibility and any paper filing hours. Electronic filing of initiating papers does not itself serve the defendant under paragraph (f)(1).