Personal Injury Lawyers in Mississauga
Mississauga sits inside the Region of Peel, which makes it two-tier. A fall on a city road is served on the City of Mississauga and a fall on a regional road is served on the Region of Peel. Both deadlines are 10 days, and getting the wrong one is the mistake that ends claims here.
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 Mississauga
The thing that catches people in Mississauga is that there are two governments, and the one you serve depends on which road you were standing on.
Mississauga is inside the Region of Peel. The City maintains local streets and sidewalks. The Region maintains the arterial roads that carry most of the traffic. They are different legal entities with different clerks, and a notice served on the wrong one is not a notice.
Ten days is not long enough to research municipal boundaries while you are injured. Where there is any doubt about which authority owns the road, serve both. It costs nothing and it protects the claim.
Photograph where you were standing
Not just the hazard. The surroundings are what later establish whether that stretch of road belonged to the City or to the Region, and the photographs are usually the only record of it.
Work out whose road it was, then serve both anyway
The City maintains local streets and sidewalks, the Region maintains regional roads. Ten days is not long enough to resolve a boundary question while injured, and serving both costs nothing.
Get the MiWay incident number
If it happened on a bus, the operator files a report and the vehicle carries cameras. Ask for the incident number at the time. It is far harder to locate the right vehicle and the right run weeks later.
The law is the same across Ontario. Who you serve is not.
Mississauga is a lower-tier municipality inside the Region of Peel. The City is the road authority for local streets and sidewalks. The Region is the road authority for regional roads. Notice goes to whichever one owns the road, and where that is unclear, to both.
WRITTEN NOTICE GOES TO
- City Clerk, City of Mississauga
- Regional Clerk, Region of Peel
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, Brampton
7755 Hurontario Street, Brampton
Peel Region claims are issued in the Superior Court of Justice at Brampton, not in Mississauga. People are regularly surprised that a Mississauga claim is a Brampton file.
MiWay
MiWay is operated by the City of Mississauga. An injury on a MiWay bus is a claim against the City, which means the municipal notice rules are in play from the first day.
Trillium Health Partners
Trillium Health Partners runs the Mississauga Hospital and Credit Valley Hospital. The most severe trauma is typically transferred to a designated lead trauma centre, which means the records for a catastrophic file sit in two hospital systems rather than one.
Highway 401, Highway 403, the QEW, Hurontario Street
Four major highways cross Mississauga and Hurontario runs the length of it. A collision here is often on a road the Region owns rather than the City.
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
It depends on who owns the road. The City maintains local streets and sidewalks, the Region maintains regional roads. If you cannot tell, serve both inside the 10 days. Meeting the shorter deadline twice costs nothing and protects the claim.
Peel Region claims are issued in the Superior Court of Justice at Brampton. The courthouse follows the region, not the city you live in.
Yes. MiWay is run by the City of Mississauga, so it is a claim against a municipality and the notice rules apply. Your accident benefits still come from your own auto insurer, or from the transit operator where you have no policy of your own.
A private parking lot is occupiers' liability rather than municipal, and the notice period is different. Where a fall happened near the boundary between a sidewalk and private property, give notice under both rules.
Personal injury work we do in Mississauga
Car Accidents in Mississauga
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 Mississauga
Accident benefits are paid by your own auto insurer regardless of who caused the collision.
Read moreSlip and Fall in Mississauga
Slip and fall claims in Ontario carry notice deadlines far shorter than the usual two year limitation period.
Read moreLong-Term Disability in Mississauga
Most long-term disability denials in Ontario are not about whether you are ill.
Read moreCatastrophic Injury in Mississauga
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 Mississauga
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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