Perkins v. Northeastern Log Homes

LEIBSON, Justice.

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky has certified to the Kentucky Supreme Court the following Questions of Law at issue in the above-styled case:

“(1) whether KRS 413.135 violates Kentucky Constitution §§ 14, 54, 59, and/or 241; and(2) whether KRS 413.135 applies to latent disease cases and, if so, whether the statute of limitations commences from the date the plaintiff knows or should have discovered the injury or disease.”

For reasons that we will address, our answer to the first question is that the statute in question violates the Kentucky…