# Medical malpractice · Virginia — Civil statute of limitations by state and type of claim

For Medical malpractice · Virginia, limitation period is two-year; how the statute describes it is actions for malpractice against a health care provider, verified against its source on 2026-08-25.

- **Type of claim:** Medical malpractice _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **State:** Virginia _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Limitation period:** two-year _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **How the statute describes it:** actions for malpractice against a health care provider _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> C. The two-year limitations period specified in subsection A shall be extended in actions for malpractice against a health care provider as follows: 1. In cases arising out of a foreign object having no therapeutic or diagnostic effect being left in a patient's body, for a period of one year from the date the object is discovered or reasonably should have been discovered; 2. In cases in which fraud, concealment, or intentional misrepresentation prevented discovery of the injury within the two-year period, for one year from the date the injury is discovered or, by the exercise of due diligence, reasonably should have been discovered; and

## Source

- https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title8.01/chapter4/section8.01-243/

Last verified: 2026-08-25. Review by: 2027-08-25.
Part of [Civil statute of limitations by state and type of claim](https://referencesource.org/state-civil-statute-of-limitations/).