Supreme Court dismisses appeal; 10-year statute of limitations for tort damages runs from the injury date, not discovery.
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal against a lower court's award of compensatory pension to a worker injured in an industrial accident. The plaintiff argued that a new disability assessment in 1992 constituted a separate damaging event, which would reset the statute of limitations. The court rejected this, ruling that the 1992 assessment was merely a consequence of the original 1970 accident and did not create a new independent tort. Consequently, the ten-year limitation period expired in 1980, regardless of when the plaintiff learned of the specific disability classification.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 442 § 1 zdanie drugie KC; Art. 393 § 12 KPC: The ten-year statute of limitations for damages arising from a tortious act runs from the date the damaging event occurred, not from the date the victim discovered the damage, provided the event and damage are causally linked.