Survivors of adult sexual violence have long been denied justice in New York because of an unfair statute of limitations of just five years for civil claims. In 2019, then-Governor Cuomo signed a law that increased the civil statute of limitations for adult sexual abuse to 20 years.
Unfortunately, this legislation came too late for the thousands of survivors whose claims were already barred because the statute of limitations had expired. The Adult Survivors Act in New York aims to address this by providing a temporary lifetime lookback window for these deserving survivors.