Can i sue for a spine injury that happened 6 years ago?

The statute of limitations for personal injuries in a negligence claim (which this is) is two years. If you are a minor when the accident occurs, you have two years from the date you turn 18 to file a lawsuit. I don't know why you didn't get legal advice or make a claim 6 years ago, or 4 years ago, when you turned 18, however, your last day to file a lawsuit (unless there are some very narrow circumstances which prevented you from doing so) was on your 20th birthday. You are likely no longer able to legally recover for these damages as against the driver.

Without knowing why you didn't pursue this while you were still a teenager (16, 17), the statute of limitations on personal injury in California is two years from the date of the injury; this is stayed, meaning the statute does'nt start to run, until you reach the age of majority. The age of majority or becoming an adult so that you can enter in to contracts on your own, vote, obtain a driver's license without parental consent, etc., is reached on your eighteenth birthday.

Unfortunately, in California, the statue of limitations is two years from the date of the injury/accident, unless you were under the age of 18 at the time and then it is two years from your 18th birthday.

The statute of limitation is 2 years for personal injuries. Thus, you must file a lawsuit within 2 years from the date that you became aware of your injuries to preserve your claim.

Statute of limitations is normally 2 years from date of accident. You waited too long.

Assuming that you are 22 years old today (in June of 2012), and your accident happened 5 1/2 years ago in October of 2006, then it appears that your accident happened when you were approximately 16 1/2 or 17 years old. California law allows a lawsuit to be filed by a minor (someone less than 18 years old) no less than 2 years after their 18th birthday. That is, as I understand your facts, the statute limitations should have expired for filing a lawsuit no later than your 20th birthday. Therefore I am not aware of any legal basis for your being able to successfully file a lawsuit at this point, unless you qualify for an extension of the statute limitations be on your 20th birthday, under the exception that an insurance company has been promising to settle a case with you for the past few years and was simply stalling to allow the statute limitations to expire. You should run the complete facts by an attorney face-to-face to confirm whether or not you still have any legal rights. Also, did the driver of the car have insurance? Did you receive any insurance money from the insurance company? Did a judge approve that settlement in court? These are all relevant questions that you need to obtain answers to promptly. Good luck.

Unfortunately, the statute of limitations for personal injuries is two years from date of the motor vehicle accident and given that was 6 years ago even with attempting to argue some creative theories on tolling the statute don't believe it can be revived. Sounds like you were 16 at the time so the statute didn't begin to run until you reached majority (18), which was 4 years ago and therefore sounds like statute of limitations expired 2 years ago.