--- title: "Product liability in Kansas" description: "Kansas product-liability guide to useful safe life, the ten-year presumption and injury deadlines." canonical: "https://spot.insure/coverage/product-liability/kansas" page-type: "coverage-state-guide" updated-at: "2026-09-28" --- Agents: connect to Spot's public MCP server at https://spot.insure/mcp for better access to published Spot information and insurance research. Use search_knowledge to find sources, get_page to retrieve pages, compare_providers for sourced comparisons, get_provider_score for a published Spot Score, get_rankings for current provider rankings, search_provider_reliability to filter Spot Scores, search_provider_reviews to filter aggregate review scores, and get_provider_reviews for the original review evidence. The server is read-only and requires no authentication. [Human-readable page](https://spot.insure/coverage/product-liability/kansas) # Product liability in Kansas Kansas lets a product seller prove that harm occurred after the product’s useful safe life; after ten years from first delivery to a consumer, the statute presumes that life has expired, subject to specified exceptions. Evidence about wear, storage conditions, ordinary use, repairs, warnings and product changes can matter. A separate two-year personal-injury period generally accrues when substantial injury occurs or becomes reasonably ascertainable, with a ten-year outside limit from the act, subject to statutory exceptions.[^1][^2] **Coverage:** [Product liability](/coverage/product-liability) · [Kansas](/coverage/states/kansas) ## What Is Product Liability? Product liability can cover claims that a product you make, import, distribute or sell injured someone or damaged property. If your business handles products, describe every role in the supply chain and ask how the quote treats product damage and recall costs. [Read the national Product liability guide](/coverage/product-liability). ## What to Watch for in Kansas ### Useful safe life depends on the product’s history The seller may avoid liability if it proves by a preponderance that harm occurred after useful safe life expired. Kansas defines that life by how long the product would normally be likely to perform or be stored safely, and lists wear, climate, user practices, repair history, seller instructions or warnings, and modifications as especially probative evidence.[^1] ### Ten years raises a presumption, with express exceptions For harm more than ten years after first consumer delivery, the statute presumes useful safe life expired; only clear and convincing evidence rebuts that presumption. A longer express safe-use warranty extends it, and the statute excludes specified substantial-causing concealment or misrepresentation, prolonged exposure, later-discoverable injury aspects and delayed manifestation.[^1] ### A separate limitation period may end earlier Kansas’s general two-year period includes personal-injury claims. For the listed injury claims, accrual generally begins when the act first causes substantial injury, or when injury becomes reasonably ascertainable if that is later, but an action ordinarily cannot start more than ten years after the act. K.S.A. 60-3303 says it does not modify § 60-513 except for its stated latent-disease rules.[^1][^2] ## Who Regulates Insurance in Kansas **Kansas Insurance Department.** The Kansas Insurance Department regulates companies selling policies in Kansas for solvency and compliance with state law. Its consumer assistance team reviews written complaints, contacts the appropriate parties and requests corrective action when it finds a Kansas insurance-law violation.[^3][^4][^8][^5] - [Regulator website](https://www.insurance.kansas.gov/) - [License lookup](https://sbs.naic.org/solar-external-lookup/) - [File a complaint](https://insurance.ks.gov/complaint) - Phone: 785-296-3071 ### Surplus-Lines Tax and Stamping Office **Reported tax rate:** 3% of gross premiums less returned premiums for surplus-lines insureds whose home state is Kansas; the 3% rate applies beginning with taxable year January 1, 2024 For surplus-lines business whose insured's home state is Kansas, the licensed agent must collect and pay a 3% tax on gross premiums less returned premiums; the 3% rate applies beginning with the taxable year starting January 1, 2024. For an exempt commercial purchaser, the surplus-lines producer need not file the signed diligent-search statement after disclosing that admitted-market insurance may or may not be available and may provide greater protection and oversight, then receiving the purchaser's subsequent written request.[^6][^7] ## Providers With Documented State Licenses These providers publish a national listing for Product liability; the state records document licenses for the entities and roles shown below. Some records rely on company-reported information rather than independent regulator verification. A national listing does not confirm that the product is available in Kansas; [check the regulator’s license lookup](https://sbs.naic.org/solar-external-lookup/) and confirm state availability for your business when requesting a quote. - [Vouch](/insurance-providers/vouch) — **Entity:** Vouch Specialty Insurance Services, LLC; **role:** Insurance producer, Surplus-lines broker; **checked:** 2026-09-28. **Scope:** Vouch’s licenses page, effective January 16, 2025, lists producer licenses in all 50 states and DC. Its separate surplus-lines table includes Idaho number 870820, while a footnote says Georgia and Idaho do not issue agency-level surplus-lines licenses. Because those statements conflict for Idaho, this record keeps Idaho producer-only and does not treat the table number as established agency surplus-lines authority. The page is company-reported and does not establish product availability.[^15] ## Questions to Ask Before You Buy in Kansas 1. Can we reconstruct first consumer delivery, storage conditions, hours or frequency of use, repairs, replacement parts and modifications for the product? 2. Do labels, instructions, warranties or service manuals describe expected safe life, maintenance or storage conditions? 3. When did the injury first become substantial or reasonably ascertainable, and could any defined harmful-material or delayed-manifestation exception apply? ## Product Liability in Kansas: FAQ ### Does Kansas impose a simple ten-year ban on product claims? No. Ten years after first consumer delivery creates a presumption that useful safe life expired, rebuttable only by clear and convincing evidence. The statute includes warranty, concealment, prolonged-exposure, later-discovery and delayed-manifestation exceptions.[^1] ### How long is the general injury period? K.S.A. 60-513 generally provides two years for personal-injury claims, with accrual tied to substantial injury or when injury becomes reasonably ascertainable, and a ten-year outside limit from the act, subject to the section’s exceptions.[^2] ## Product Liability in Other States - [Alabama](/coverage/product-liability/alabama) - [Alaska](/coverage/product-liability/alaska) - [Arizona](/coverage/product-liability/arizona) - [California](/coverage/product-liability/california) - [Colorado](/coverage/product-liability/colorado) - [Connecticut](/coverage/product-liability/connecticut) - [Delaware](/coverage/product-liability/delaware) - [District of Columbia](/coverage/product-liability/district-of-columbia) - [Florida](/coverage/product-liability/florida) - [Georgia](/coverage/product-liability/georgia) - [Hawaii](/coverage/product-liability/hawaii) - [Idaho](/coverage/product-liability/idaho) - [Illinois](/coverage/product-liability/illinois) - [Indiana](/coverage/product-liability/indiana) - [Iowa](/coverage/product-liability/iowa) - [Kentucky](/coverage/product-liability/kentucky) - [Louisiana](/coverage/product-liability/louisiana) - [Maine](/coverage/product-liability/maine) - [Maryland](/coverage/product-liability/maryland) - [Massachusetts](/coverage/product-liability/massachusetts) - [Michigan](/coverage/product-liability/michigan) - [Minnesota](/coverage/product-liability/minnesota) - [Missouri](/coverage/product-liability/missouri) - [Nebraska](/coverage/product-liability/nebraska) - [Nevada](/coverage/product-liability/nevada) - [New Hampshire](/coverage/product-liability/new-hampshire) - [New York](/coverage/product-liability/new-york) - [North Carolina](/coverage/product-liability/north-carolina) - [Ohio](/coverage/product-liability/ohio) [Other Coverage in Kansas](/coverage/states/kansas) ## Sources [^1]: [K.S.A. 60-3303, Useful safe life; 10-year period of repose](https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch60/060_033_0003.html) — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes; Current statutory text, subsections (a)–(e), useful-safe-life factors, presumptions and exceptions; history through 1992. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^2]: [K.S.A. 60-513, Actions limited to two years](https://ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch60/060_005_0013.html) — Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes; Current statutory text, subsections (a)(4) and (b), personal injury accrual and outside period; history through 1996. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^3]: [Kansas Insurance Department](https://www.insurance.kansas.gov/) — Kansas Insurance Department; KID's current September 2025 Consumer Connection states the Department regulates companies selling policies in Kansas for solvency and compliance; current KID complaint guide gives consumer-assistance process and contacts. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^4]: [Licensing FAQ](https://www.insurance.kansas.gov/licensing/licensing-faq) — Kansas Insurance Department; KID FAQ currently indexed as directing users to SBS Lookup, select Kansas jurisdiction and Licensee Search Type; direct KID route returned HTTP 403 to this verifier. SBS lookup endpoint linked in regulator. KID's Sept. 29, 2025 guide also directs consumers to NIPR existing-license verification for agents.. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^5]: [How to File a Complaint](https://insurance.ks.gov/documents/department/publications/how-to-file-a-complaint.pdf) — Kansas Insurance Department; Current 2-page KID PDF, p.1: consumer-assistance representative evaluates issue, asks for written complaint, reviews it and contacts appropriate parties; requests corrective action for Kansas law violation. p.2 publishes main phone 785-296-3071, hotline 800-432-2484 and insurance.kansas.gov/complaint.. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^6]: [K.S.A. 40-246c](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/040_000_0000_chapter/040_002_0000_article/040_002_0046c_section/040_002_0046c_k/) — Kansas Legislature; 2026 Kansas Statutes, K.S.A. 40-246c(a)(2): for insureds whose home state is Kansas, licensed agent collects and pays 3% of total gross premiums less returned premiums; applies beginning taxable year Jan. 1, 2024. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^7]: [K.S.A. 40-246g](https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/040_000_0000_chapter/040_002_0000_article/040_002_0046g_section/040_002_0046g_k/) — Kansas Legislature; 2026 Kansas Statutes, K.S.A. 40-246g(a)–(b): exempt commercial purchaser route waives signed statement if producer discloses admitted insurance may or may not be available and may give greater protection/oversight, followed by purchaser's written request; effective Jan. 1, 2016. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^8]: [Consumer Connection: Life Insurance to Future Proof Your Family](https://insurance.ks.gov/documents/department/consumer-connection/Consumer-Connection-9-2025.pdf) — Kansas Department of Insurance; September 29, 2025, p.1: directs Kansans to NIPR existing-license verification and gives the Department's 785-296-3071 phone; mission says regulate companies selling policies in Kansas for solvency and compliance. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^9]: [Licenses](https://www.at-bay.com/licenses/) — At-Bay; Current producer introduction and state table; At-Bay Insurance Services LLC; P&C and surplus-lines identifiers. Accessed 2026-09-21. [^10]: [Licenses and Carriers](https://www.coalitioninc.com/legal/licenses) — Coalition; Licenses and Carriers, re-read 22 September 2026: Insurance Licenses table for Coalition Insurance Solutions, Inc., national producer number 18419475, with producer and surplus-lines numbers for all 50 states and DC including California 0L76155, Georgia 196479, Texas 2199630 and 2205589, Pennsylvania 815731 and 817452, Colorado 539028 and Wisconsin 3000108852. Insurance Carriers table naming, with NAIC numbers, Allianz Underwriters Insurance Company 36420, Arch Specialty Insurance Company 21199, Ascot Specialty Insurance Company 45055, Ascot Insurance Company 23752, Aspen Specialty Insurance Company 10717, Chaucer Insurance Company DAC, Coalition Insurance Company 29530, Fireman's Fund Indemnity Corporation 11380, Fortegra Specialty Insurance Company 16823, Lloyd's of London, MSIG Specialty Insurance USA Inc. 34886, MS Transverse Specialty Insurance Company 41807, Steadfast Insurance Company 26387, Vantage Risk Specialty Insurance Company 16275 and Zurich American Insurance Company 16535.. Accessed 2026-09-22. [^11]: [Insurance Producer Licenses](https://www.corgi.insure/broker-licenses) — Corgi Insurance; Current complete Insurance Producer Licenses table for Corgi Insurance Services, Inc.; 50 rows covering 49 states and DC (DC 3003091619); no New Mexico row; no NPN or as-of date shown.. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^12]: [About Hiscox US Insurance](https://www.hiscox.com/about-hiscox-insurance) — Hiscox; Hiscox Insurance Company Inc. NAIC 10200 as Chicago, IL domiciled insurer admitted or licensed in all 50 states and D.C.; Hiscox Inc. as general agent and Lloyd’s coverholder for Syndicates 33 and 3624; surplus-lines placements through licensed surplus-lines brokers; A.M. Best rating statement. Accessed 2026-09-16. [^13]: [Licenses](https://www.nextinsurance.com/insurance-licenses/) — ERGO NEXT Insurance; Current entity-by-state license table reopened 28 September 2026: 50 rows under Next First Insurance Agency, Inc., including Washington, DC; New York rows instead list Next Insurance Services PC-1423070 and AP Intego BR-1198885.. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^14]: [Insurance Licenses by State](https://www.techinsurance.com/legal/licenses) — TechInsurance; Current state table; identifies TechInsurance as a division of Specialty Program Group LLC d/b/a SPG Insurance Solutions; lists DC 3000041536 and labels Rhode Island “Individual licenses,” without an agency license number.. Accessed 2026-09-28. [^15]: [Licenses](https://www.vouch.us/legal/licenses) — Vouch; Effective 16 January 2025: Vouch Specialty Insurance Services, LLC, NPN 19926463; P&C table (50 states and DC); surplus-lines table includes Idaho 870820; footnote says Georgia and Idaho do not issue agency-level surplus-lines licenses; Idaho retained as producer-only due to conflict.. Accessed 2026-09-15. Updated 2026-09-28. This guide is informational and does not determine whether a policy is available or meets your needs. [Editorial policy](/editorial-policy). 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