Wisconsin Finally Decides the Statute of Limitations for Malicious Prosecution
In Turner v. Sanoski, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals addressed the statute of limitations for a malicious prosecution claim arising in Douglas County. For those of you who hate to wade through text to get to the answer, I’ll cut to the chase:
because malicious prosecution is an intentional tort to the person, the WIS. STAT. § 893.57 two-year statute of limitations applies
Seems to make sense, given the statute’’s language that says it applies to “other intentional tort to the person.” What’s surprising is that this is the first published decision on this topic in almost 30 years.
