PUERTO RICO AUTO INSURANCE GUIDE

Puerto Rico Crash Investigation, Evidence Preservation & One-Year Tort Prescription

Puerto Rico extra-contractual tort claims are generally subject to a one-year prescriptive period running from knowledge of the damage and the responsible person, subject to interruption and claim-specific rules. This guide will combine prescription analysis with crash-investigation and evidence-preservation steps involving vehicles, electronic data, photographs, video, witnesses, police records, medical documentation, and spoliation issues.