Jackson ex rel. Jackson v. State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.

REYNOLDS, Justice.

The issue we decide is whether the relevant statute of limitation has run and therefore precludes an infant from pursuing his statutory claim for survivor’s benefits.

William Jackson was five years of age at the time his father died in an automobile accident that occurred March 2, 1981. One year, five months and eleven days later (August 13, 1982), a survivor’s claim was filed on the infant’s behalf seeking benefits under the No-Fault Act, KRS Chapter 304. As the father was a passenger in an uninsured vehicle at the time of the fatal wreck, the claim for benefits was filed…