Except as otherwise provided by law, a person may not bring an action (1) for libel, slander, assault, battery, seduction, or false imprisonment, (2) for personal injury or death, or injury to the rights of another not arising on contract and not specifically provided otherwise; (3) for taking, detaining, or injuring personal property, including an action for its specific recovery; (4) upon a statute for a forfeiture or penalty to the state; or (5) upon a liability created by statute, other than a penalty or forfeiture; unless the action is commenced within two years of the accrual of the cause of action.
Sharrow v. Archer, 658 P.2d 1331 (Alaska 1983). (The statute of limitations bars an action by a patient who suffered cardiac arrest after a massive overdose of Lidocaine and who learned the circumstances soon thereafter, but delayed filing the action for two and a half years. The court held that the patient knew or should have known that there was a potential cause of action soon after the malpractice occurred. The fact that the defendant himself did not tell the patient of the overdose is immaterial where she learned of it from other sources, as is the fact that she was not sure that she had enough "proof" of malpractice.)