Person gets bit by a dog. Person sustains objective injury (cuts, lacerations, stitches, sutures, or even worse) Person sustains damages and/or quantifiable loss from said dog bite injury. Person retains a personal injury lawyer. Person wins a judgment or settles their case outside of Court. Person cashes in their settlement…
Part of the secret to defending a personal injury case, isn’t in the defence of the case on its merits itself. Rather, it’s all about trying to find alternative sources of income or benefits which the Plaintiff is entitled to so that that money offsets any potential award. This way,…
In school, you’re not taught what to do after a serious car accident. There is no course or classroom lesson. This is something which people will learn from friends, family members, lawyers, reading, or through life experience. While car accidents happen everyday, the same people aren’t involved in car accidents…
Most people around the Golden Horseshoe Area of Ontario woke up Sunday morning to snow. It was the first snowfall of the season. Normally, the first snow fall is just a warning shot. It snows; and it’s pretty. And very quickly, the snow melts away without causing any chaos. It’s…
What makes the Toronto Blue Jays unique as a Major League Baseball team, is that they are the only Major League Baseball Team which represents and draws fans from an entire nation. The Toronto Raptors have the same standing in the National Basketball Association. But, the Toronto Blue Jays seem…
Lots of Canadians have been captivated by the Toronto Blue Jays playoff run into the World Series. A ball club which finished last in their division last year has made a historic turnaround which no fans or baseball pundits expected. They are the most mentally tough and resilient professional sports…
You will often hear personal injury lawyers refer to the term “tort“, or “tort case”, or “tort claim” or “tort law”. But what is a tort anyways? Here is a quick breakdown. Torte: Noun: a yummy and rich, often multilayered cake that can be made with little to no flour,…
I was watching the film All The President’s Men from 1976. It stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein and Paul Woodward (Woodward and Bernstein) as the two Wash Post journalists who broke the Watergate Scandal involving President Richard Nixon. I was watching the moving because Robert Redford…
Insurance companies love to hear when clients have “After The Event” insurance or “ATE” as it is known in the industry. What is ATE? At trial, a Judge can order that the losing party pay for the winning party’s legal costs. ATE is a policy of insurance meant to cover…
I saw a YouTube Clip of a prominent American Trial Lawyer not long ago. It was very “us against them” in tone, but the messaging rang true. For years, and in some cases, for decades, hard working people pay their hard earned after tax dollars to car insurers for premium…