Stackhouse v. Schneider

MACK, Associate Judge:

This appeal presents the narrow issue of when the statute of limitations for bringing an action under the Compulsory No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act of 1982, D.C. Code § 35-2101 et seq. (1985 Supp.) 1 begins to run. All parties agree that the general Code provision 2 would prohibit an action “for which a limitation is not otherwise specifically prescribed” from being brought after three years from the time the right to maintain the action accrues. We reject appellees’ contention that the action in this case accrued at the time of injury. We hold that the statute of…