Personal Injury Lawyers in Markham
Markham is a lower-tier city inside York Region. A fall on a city sidewalk is served on the City of Markham and a fall on a regional road is served on York Region, both within 10 days. Markham claims are issued at Newmarket.
The lawyer on your file
Shawn Sidhu, Lawyer
You speak to a lawyer, not an intake desk. The first conversation is free, and if we do not think you have a claim we will tell you that too.
Deadlines that apply to you
These are the dates that end claims. Check them first.
If the injury happened on a municipal road or sidewalk and the claim is that it was not kept in repair, written notice must reach the municipality within 10 days.
Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25, s. 44(10)
In most Ontario claims you have two years from the day you knew, or ought to have known, that you had a claim.
Limitations Act, 2002, S.O. 2002, c. 24, Sched. B, s. 4
Injured in Markham
Markham has one of the most linguistically diverse populations in the country, and that matters more to an injury claim than it sounds. Insurer correspondence arrives in English, medical assessments are conducted in English, and a claimant working in a second language is at a measurable disadvantage in exactly the moments that decide a file.
The municipal structure is the York Region model. The City of Markham owns local streets and sidewalks, York Region owns the regional roads, and the 10-day notice goes to whichever one owns the stretch you were on.
Have someone read the insurer letters properly
Correspondence, medical assessments and benefit denials arrive in English on a fixed clock. A missed deadline in a letter nobody fully read is the most avoidable way a good claim is lost.
Serve the City and York Region both
Markham maintains local streets and sidewalks, York Region maintains regional roads. Both notices run 10 days, and where ownership is unclear the safe course is to serve each of them.
Keep the YRT or Viva details
Those services are operated by the Region rather than the City, so a transit injury is a claim against a different body than a sidewalk fall on the same street. Route, run time and incident number all matter.
The law is the same across Ontario. Who you serve is not.
Markham is a lower-tier municipality inside York Region. Notice goes to the City of Markham for local roads and sidewalks, and to York Region for regional roads.
WRITTEN NOTICE GOES TO
- City Clerk, City of Markham
- Regional Clerk, York Region
If the injury happened on a municipal road or sidewalk and the claim is that it was not kept in repair, written notice must reach the municipality within 10 days.
Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001, c. 25, s. 44(10)
Superior Court of Justice, Newmarket
50 Eagle Street West, Newmarket
York Region claims, including Markham claims, are issued in the Superior Court of Justice at Newmarket.
York Region Transit and Viva
York Region Transit and the Viva routes are operated by the Region. An injury on one of those vehicles is a claim against York Region rather than against the City of Markham.
Markham Stouffville Hospital
Markham Stouffville Hospital handles emergency care locally, with severe trauma generally transferred to a designated lead trauma centre in Toronto.
Highway 404, Highway 407, Highway 7
Highway 404 and the 407 bound Markham and Highway 7 runs through it. Regional ownership of the major arterials is what decides where a notice goes.
What this costs you
We fight for the maximum compensation your claim will carry, and you do not pay a dollar unless we win.
Nothing up front. The consultation is free, we act on contingency, and we advance the costs of building the case so a claim is never held up by money. If we do not recover anything, you do not owe a fee.
- Free consultation, no obligation
- Not a dollar unless we win
- We advance disbursements
- Home and hospital visits across the GTA
Questions we get every week
Whichever owns the road. The City maintains local streets and sidewalks, the Region maintains regional roads. Where you cannot tell, serve both inside the 10 days.
In the Superior Court of Justice at Newmarket, which is the registry for all of York Region.
We can take instructions and explain the file in the language you are comfortable in. What cannot change is that insurer correspondence, medical assessments and court documents are in English, which is exactly why having somebody read them properly matters.
No. The 10-day municipal notice and the two-year limitation period are provincial. What differs is which government receives the notice.
Personal injury work we do in Markham
Car Accidents in Markham
After a car accident in Ontario you usually have two separate claims running at the same time: accident benefits from your own insurer regardless of who caused the crash, and a claim against the driver at fault.
Read moreAccident Benefits in Markham
Accident benefits are paid by your own auto insurer regardless of who caused the collision.
Read moreSlip and Fall in Markham
Slip and fall claims in Ontario carry notice deadlines far shorter than the usual two year limitation period.
Read moreLong-Term Disability in Markham
Most long-term disability denials in Ontario are not about whether you are ill.
Read moreCatastrophic Injury in Markham
In Ontario, a catastrophic impairment designation raises the combined medical, rehabilitation and attendant care limit from $65,000 to $1,000,000 and removes the time limit.
Read moreTraumatic Brain Injury in Markham
A traumatic brain injury can be severe and permanent while every scan comes back normal.
Read moreOther Ontario cities we act in
The limitation period, the statutory deductible and the tort threshold are provincial, so they are identical in every city here. What changes is who must be served inside the 10-day notice window, and that is decided by the city.
The lawyer on your file
A lawyer reads every enquiry. Not a form.
Send us what happened and Shawn Sidhu reads it himself, then replies the same business day. The first conversation is free and there is no obligation.
If we do not think you have a claim, we will tell you that too. You will know where you stand before you decide anything.
Shawn Sidhu, Lawyer
Called to the bar in British Columbia, 2013
University of British Columbia · University of Birmingham
- Free consultation, no obligation
- Not a dollar unless we win
- We come to you at home or in hospital
Your fight becomes ours the day you call us.
Consultations are free and there is no obligation. If we take the case you pay nothing unless we win, and if we think you do not have a claim we will tell you that too.
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