All actions, arbitrations, or other binding dispute resolution proceedings to recover damages for any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of an improvement to real property, for injury to property, real or personal, arising out of any such deficiency, or for injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency, must be brought against any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of the improvement within four (4) years after substantial completion of an improvement.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 28-3-202
Limitation of actions
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case Klein v. Catalano (1982)
Most recently applied in Jere Hinman v. ValleyCrest Landscaping Dev. (January 2024)
Acts 1965, ch. 353, § 1; 1980, ch. 811, § 1; T.C.A., § 28-314; Acts 2020, ch. 749, § 38.
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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.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.