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…
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How the Toronto Blue Jays Broke My Heart
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…
Toronto Blue Jays & Long Term Disability Cases
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…
Goldfinger on Torte, Torts, Tort & Personal Injury Lawyers
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,…
Goldfinger On Personal Injury and Privacy
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…
Hot Take on After the Event Insurance (ATE)
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…
How insurance companies use the money you pay to them against You
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…
In a Personal Injury Case: It’s all about Credibility, Credibility, Credibility
I was chatting with my 8 year old son not long ago about house prices. He was curious as to why a small home in geographically desirable part of Toronto would sell for more than a much larger home in less desirable town with less amenities and less access to…
Contingency Fees for Personal Injury Lawyers vs. Contingency Fees for Realtors
I have often seen a comparison between personal injury lawyers and real estate agents because of the way that they bill their clients. Both realtors and personal injury lawyers take on files on a contingency fee basis. That means that they only get paid, unless there is an element of…
Broken Back in a Car Accident Case
Our law firms handles a lot of car accident cases from across Ontario. Each case is different. But, many car accident cases all carry common threads, and common themes. At the most basic level, a car accident case will involve Defendant Driver causing a car crash involving a Plaintiff Driver.…