Long Term Disability cases are unique in the world of personal injury law. For starters, they are contract cases (the policy of insurance). Every other case in the world of personal injury law is built on tort law. A dog bite, a slip and fall, a car accident case, an…
Records are the building materials to any personal injury case. Lucky for you, it’s not your responsibility to gather all of those records. Your personal injury lawyer will get all, or the vast majority of those records own your behalf. A witness can say one thing at discovery, or up…
I am a subscriber to a national newspaper. We get the print edition of the newspaper to our personal injury law firm. You read that right. We still get a print edition of the newspaper in the digital age. Our subscription comes with access to the online newspaper, so that…
Over the past decade, personal injury lawyers have seen an explosion of a new insurance product offered to their law firms and to their personal injury clients. It’s called Adverse Cost Insurance or After-The Event Insurance. How does it work and what does it do? Adverse Cost Insurance or After-The…
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,…
When a car accident happens, you would like to think that the insurance company insuring the at fault driver will pay out on a meritorious claim. That makes sense. But more often that not, insurance companies try to avoid (putting it kindly) their obligation to pay out on such claims.…
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…
They say that a lie has already spread around the world before the truth even has a chance to get up in the morning. Words cannot ring more true after what we’ve seen circulating in the Middle East over the past 24 hours. Legacy media and many notable politicians have…
Recently, my family and I took a family vacation to Europe. We visited Paris, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Antwerp. We had a blast. All of these cities are dramatically different than what we see in Ontario cities. As a personal injury lawyer, it got me thinking about those practical and legal…
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…