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AB 452 – Eliminates The Statute Of Limitations For Claims For Childhood Sexual Assault Arising On Or After January 1, 2024

CATEGORY: Nonprofit News, Private Education Matters
CLIENT TYPE: Nonprofit, Private Education
DATE: Nov 06, 2023

Effective January 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 452 (AB 452) eliminates the time limits for an individual who experienced childhood sexual assault occurring on or after January 1, 2024, to commence a claim for the recovery of damages in certain actions.  AB 452 applies to the following actions:

  1. An action against any person for committing an act of childhood sexual assault;
  2. An action for liability against any person or entity who owed a duty of care to the victim of sexual assault, if that person or entity’s wrongful or negligent act was a legal cause of the childhood sexual assault that caused the victim’s injury; and
  3. An action for liability against any person or entity if an intentional act by that person or entity was a legal cause of the childhood sexual assault that caused the victim’s injury.

Any claims for damages based on the above conduct in which the childhood sexual assault occurred on or before December 31, 2023, remains subject to the applicable statute of limitations set forth in the law as it read on December 31, 2023.

(AB 452 amends Section 340.1 of the Code of Civil Procedure.)

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