a breach of written contract action to which Arkansas Code Annotated section 16-56-111, a five-year statute of limitations, should apply. We need not decide which statute of limitations applies because under either the three- or five-year statute of limitations, the Committee’s claim is barred because more than five years have passed since this cause of action accrued. This action was filed on March 18, 2002; thus, the Committee’s claim is barred under either statute if it accrued prior to March 18, 1997. The Committee argues that the date on which the claim accrued was April 8, 2000: the date it became aware of Settlement II. We disagree. Generally, this court applies the discovery rule to determine when a claim accrues. Union Pacific R.R. v. Beckham, 138 F.3d 325, 330 (8th Cir.1998) (<HOLDING>). The discovery rule provides that “a
holding that the occurrence of damages determines when a medical malpractice action accrues holding that absent a contrary mandate from congress the discovery rule determines when a cause of action accrues in a federal question case holding cause of action accrues when some compensable damage occurs recognizing that under the discovery rule a cause of action accrues thereby triggering the limitations period when the patient discovers or should have discovered that he or she has a cause of action holding that cause of action for asbestosis accrues upon discovery of disease not at time of exposure to asbestos