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RCW 7.72. 060(3) sets a three-year statute of limitation for products liability cases. The statute starts running from the date you discovered or should have discovered that you were injured by a product.

With regard to products liability, a defendant is liable when the plaintiff proves that the product is defective, regardless of the defendant's intent. It is irrelevant whether the manufacturer or supplier exercised great care; if there is a defect in the product that causes harm, he or she will be liable for it.

Length of Time Product Sellers Are Subject to Liability If the harm occurred more than 12 years after the product's delivery, the law presumes the damage happened after the useful safe life expired. A plaintiff may rebut this presumption by evidence to the contrary.

(RCW 7.72.030) ?A product manufacturer is subject to liability to a claimant if the claimant's harm was proximately caused by the negligence of the manufacturer in that the product was not reasonably safe as designed or not reasonably safe because adequate warnings or instructions were not provided.? RCW 7.72. 030(1).

In Washington, there is a three-year statute of limitations for personal injury, injury to property, fraud, and trespass claims; but defamation claims only have a two-year limit. For Washington criminal charges, there is no limit for murder charges but a two-year statute of limitations for gross misdemeanors.

(RCW 7.72.030) ?A product manufacturer is subject to liability to a claimant if the claimant's harm was proximately caused by the negligence of the manufacturer in that the product was not reasonably safe as designed or not reasonably safe because adequate warnings or instructions were not provided.? RCW 7.72. 030(1).