Personal Injury

• The Pennsylvania statute of limitations on personal injury tort actions is two years, pursuant to Section 5524 of the Pennsylvania Statutes. Pennsylvania does toll the statute until discovery of the injury where the injury might not be discovered for some time.
  
  

Contracts

• Pursuant to Section 5529 and 5528, the statute of limitations on a written contract is twenty years, while the statute of limitations on an oral contract is four years.
  
  

Libel, Slander & Defamation

• These collective causes of actions have a one-year statute of limitations under Section 5523 of the Pennsylvania Code.
  
  

Professional Malpractice

• Professional malpractice against lawyers, doctors, and similar professionals is two years under Section 5524 of the Pennsylvania Code.
  
  

Real Property

• Actions regarding the possession of real property or recovery of rent have a twenty-one-year statute of limitations under Section 5530 of the Pennsylvania Code.
  
  

Fraudulent Concealement

• Under Section 5532 of the Pennsylvania Code, where there is fraudulent concealment in a civil action, the statute of limitationa begins to run from the discovery of the fraud.