Parris v. Appalachian Power Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that amendments enlarging a statute of limitations generally apply to existing cases
• noting legislature’s deletion of five-year statute of limitations for asbestosis, leaving provision that claim is timely if filed within two years of communication of diagnosis to employee
• noting legislature's deletion of five-year statute of limitations for asbestosis, leaving provision that claim is timely if filed within two years of communication of diagnosis to employee
• “[O]nce the limitations period has run, any subsequent amendments to that period generally would have no effect on the parties’ procedural rights.”
• “[O]nce the limitations period has run, any subsequent amendments to that period generally would have no effect on the parties’ procedural rights.”
• “an amendment to a period of limitation that enlarges the period is generally applicable to existing causes of action provided that an action already barred is not revived”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).