Bicycle Accident Lawyer in Calgary

No. It may be raised on the question of shared responsibility for a head injury, and the effect depends on the medical evidence. Alberta apportions damages where more than one party is at fault rather than barring a claim outright, and helmet use has no bearing at all on injuries to the rest of the body.

It may. Accident benefits under a household auto policy can respond to a cyclist struck by a vehicle, regardless of fault, and coverage responding to an uninsured or underinsured driver may also apply. It is worth checking immediately, because the accident benefits claim form has a short deadline.

In most injury claims the period is two years — but it does not simply run from the date of the accident. It runs from the point at which you knew, or ought reasonably to have known, three things: that you were injured, that the injury was attributable to someone else's conduct, and that it was serious enough to warrant bringing a proceeding. A separate ten-year outer limit runs from when the claim arose, and whichever period expires first governs. Different rules apply to minors and to people under a disability, and some claims carry much shorter notice deadlines that are separate from the limitation period. Because the analysis is fact-specific, the safe course is to ask early rather than assume.

We act on a contingency fee basis, which means you pay no legal fees unless compensation is recovered. Disbursements — the out-of-pocket costs of running a file, such as medical records, expert reports and court filing fees — and applicable taxes may still apply. We will explain the arrangement in writing before you retain us.