No action founded upon a tort shall be brought but within three years from the date of the act or omission complained of.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-577
Action founded upon a tort
Applied in 167 court decisions — leading case Graham County Soil & Water Conservation District v. United States Ex Rel. Wilson (2005)
Most recently applied in Clark v. Hanley (December 2023)
(1949 Rev., S. 8316.)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.