(a) A personal action for damages resulting from sexual assault or sexual abuse of a person who was an infant at the time of the act or acts alleged, shall be brought against the perpetrator of the sexual assault or sexual abuse, within 18 years after reaching the age of majority, or within four years after discovery of the sexual assault or sexual abuse, whichever is longer. A personal action for damages resulting from sexual assault or sexual abuse of a person who was an infant at the time of the act or acts alleged shall be brought against a person or entity which aided, abetted, or concealed the sexual assault or sexual abuse within 18 years after reaching the age of majority.
(b) If any person to whom the right accrues to bring any personal action other than an action described in subsection (a) of this section, suit, or scire facias, or any bill to repeal a grant, shall be, at the time the same accrues, an infant or insane, the same may be brought within the like number of years after his or her becoming of full age or sane that is allowed to a person having no such impediment to bring the same after the right accrues, or after such acknowledgment as is mentioned in 55-2-8 of this code, except that it shall in no case be brought after 20 years from the time when the right accrues.
(c) The amendments to this section enacted during the 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature are intended to extend the statute of limitations for all actions whether or not an earlier established period of limitation has expired.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale
Article 2. Limitation of Actions and Suits
§55-2-1. Entry Upon or Recovery of Lands
§55-2-2. Claim Not to Preserve Right as to Lands
§55-2-3. Entry Upon or Recovery of Lands by Persons Under Disability
§55-2-4. Limitations Upon §55-2-3
§55-2-6. Actions to Recover on Award or Contract Other Than Judgment or Recognizance
§55-2-7. Actions on Bonds of Personal Representatives and Fiduciaries
§55-2-8. Acknowledgment by New Promise
§55-2-9. Effect of Acknowledgment by Personal Representative or Joint Contractor
§55-2-10. Effect of Devise for Payment of Debts
§55-2-11. Action or Scire Facias on Recognizance
§55-2-12. Personal Actions Not Otherwise Provided For
§55-2-13. Foreign Judgments and Decrees
§55-2-14. Suit to Repeal Land Grant
§55-2-15. Special and General Savings as to Persons Under Disability
§55-2-16. Death Before Right to Sue
§55-2-17. When Suit Prevented by Defendant; Actions on Foreign Contracts
§55-2-19. Application of Statute of Limitation to State
§55-2-19a. Collection of Taxes Due State or Any Subdivision Thereof
§55-2-21. Statutes of Limitation Tolled on Claims Assertible in Civil Actions When Actions Commence