Motor vehicle accidents in New Brunswick

Two years from discovery

The Limitation of Actions Act sets two years from discoverability with a fifteen-year ultimate bar.

Tort with mandatory Section B benefits and an indexed injury cap

Injured people may sue the at-fault driver, with early treatment funded by their own policy. Damages for injuries meeting the statutory definition of minor personal injury are limited to an indexed amount. As elsewhere in Atlantic Canada, the medical characterisation of the injury does most of the work.

Commercial vehicle involvement

A transport truck brings federal and provincial carrier regulation, electronic logging data, maintenance records and a defence team retained within hours. Evidence preservation letters need to go out immediately. This is a narrow specialty.

Whether you were a passenger

Passengers are rarely at fault and often have claims against multiple policies, including drivers they know personally. That is emotionally difficult and legally advantageous, and it needs a lawyer who will explain the distinction properly.

Uninsured or unidentified driver

Hit-and-run and uninsured motorist claims run against your own policy or a provincial fund, with their own notice requirements and evidentiary burdens about the search for the other driver.

Loss of consciousness, even briefly

A few seconds of altered awareness at the scene is the single most under-reported fact in injury intake, and it reframes the file from soft-tissue to possible brain injury.

Whether you have already given a recorded statement

It changes the shape of the file immediately. It is not fatal, but the lawyer who takes it needs to know before they take it.

Pre-existing conditions

Defence counsel will find them. A good firm builds the aggravation argument from the start instead of being surprised by it at discovery.