Video: Personal Injury Statute of Limitations in California
Video Transcript
California there are various different rules on how long you’ve got to file a personal injury action, and mostly they depend on who’s involved in the case. If you’ve got a governmental entity that’s responsible for the harm, you may have as short as six months, or if you take the right steps you may have a year or longer. If it’s an individual who is a health care provider, you have one year depending on the circumstances. And that’s really why you need to get into contact with a personal injury lawyer as soon as you practically can after you’ve been injured because you need to know what those statutes of limitations are because you lose your rights if you don’t move immediately and you don’t take the right steps to preserve your legal rights.
