Truck Accident Lawyer in Calgary

Usually, yes. The injuries tend to be more serious, there is often a carrier as well as a driver, insurance limits are typically higher, and there is a body of operational records — logs, maintenance files, dispatch data — that does not exist in an ordinary collision. Those records matter and they do not last indefinitely.

Depending on the facts: the driver, the carrier that employed or engaged them, the registered owner of the vehicle, a maintenance contractor, a shipper or loader, or the manufacturer of a component that failed. Alberta law also deems a driver operating with the owner's consent to be the owner's agent in a highway collision claim, which is often how a carrier is brought in.

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.