After
the crash

It depends on the state where the crash happened. General personal injury deadlines run from 1 year (Tennessee) to 6 years (Maine, Minnesota and North Dakota). 25 states use two years and 17 use three.

Claims against a city, county or state agency usually need a written notice much sooner, sometimes within months. The 50-state deadline table lists each state.

17 states require a helmet for every rider. 30 require one only for younger riders or other specific groups. Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire have no helmet law for any rider, according to the IIHS table.

Riding without a helmet where it is legal does not end a claim, but an insurer may argue it made a head injury worse. See helmet laws by state.

In most states, yes, with the award reduced by your share of fault. 10 states use pure comparative negligence, where you can recover even if you were mostly at fault. Most others cut off recovery once your share reaches 50% or 51%.

Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia follow contributory negligence, where any fault on your side can bar recovery. Each state page names its rule.

Riding between lanes of moving traffic is legal only in California. Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana and Utah allow some form of lane filtering, usually past stopped traffic at low speed. 27 states prohibit it outright and 17 have no statute that addresses it directly.

The details and conditions are in lane splitting laws by state.

No. The directory is a list of firms that say they handle motorcycle injury cases. A listing is not an endorsement, a rating or a referral, and no attorney pays to appear in it.

You can browse the directory by state. Before you hire anyone, confirm the license and discipline record with the state bar and read the written fee agreement.