On June 22, 1990, the Ontario Government introduced the threshold for general damages in car accident cases. This meant that each injury needed to be deemed as a “serious and permanent impairment” of an important physical or psychological function. If the personal injury did not meet the medico legal threshold…
Personal injury cases are never as simple as they might appear to be. The case of an apparently simple slip and fall, just isn’t so simple. On the surface, the case is very easy to summarize. A person is walking on a private walkway. The walkway was not properly maintained…
The title to this Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog post may strike you as a bit odd; but it’s one of the top questions I’ve been receiving since the horrific terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023. What makes Canada a great country is that we have all sorts of freedoms. But,…
It’s a legal requirement to drive a motor vehicle with car insurance. Section 2(1) of the Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act states: Compulsory automobile insurance 2 (1) Subject to the regulations, no owner or lessee of a motor vehicle shall, (a) operate the motor vehicle; or (b) cause or permit the motor…
When you think of a car accident case, the basic premise is that there was an accident; an at fault party; and the at fault party is responsible to pay for the injured party’s damages and losses. Some cases certainly work that way. But the vast majority of cases do…
Sounds like a typical law school fact pattern for a tort case. A property owner retains an arborist to do a routine pruning job on a set of Norwich Maple Trees in his yard. The arborist advertises that he is both “licensed” and insured. Upon attending at the job site,…
Ontario is scheduled to drop most mask mandates by March 21, 2022. Whether or not this is the right move or not has nothing to do with being a personal injury lawyer; so I’ll just stay in my lane. But, in creeping closer to this date we have seen an…
Sometimes things which are presented to you sound too good to be true. This can ring true in the sale of insurance products; such as critical illness insurance. When things sound too good to be true, they should be looked at with skepticism. Our law firm handles critical illness claims.…
In tort law, one of the first and most important things lawyers are taught is to sue a Defendant with deep pockets and an ability to pay out a Judgment. The only remedy in a personal injury case is money. There is no ticker tape parade for the victor of…
The Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) provides no fault insurance coverage for injured workers in workplace accidents. When workers have been injured in the course of their employment; often they look to our law firm to sue their employer. But here’s the catch. And oh boy; is it ever a…