In the world of Plaintiff personal injury law, it’s not uncommon for cases to last a year, to multiple years. Depending on the severity of the injury, the complexity of the case, the number of parties involved in a case, along with the willingness (or lack thereof) of the parties…
September means back to school time. It can also mean back to work time for many adults who have take a summer vacation. That means our commutes are more crowded on the roads. Increased volumes of motorists, pedestrians and cyclists are imminent. The City of Toronto is in the midst…
Some of the most difficult, and most emotional cases for clients and personal injury lawyers to handle are car crashes which result in the death of a loved one. How does one put a price on a human life? No amount of money will ever be enough to fill the…
The personal injury lawyers here at my law firm, Goldfinger Injury Lawyers have developed a unique term for certain long term disability cases. We call it getting “mathed out“. What does it mean to get “mathed out“? It means that the math is working against you to defeat your claim,…
Brain injury is right up there with the most serious injury one can get in a bad motor vehicle collision, or accident not caused by motor vehicle collision. The thing about brain injury is that it can often be overlooked, or misunderstood by the general public, or even doctors. The…
Summer long weekends can bring out the best, and worst in people. As a personal injury lawyer, we are consulted in situations where bad things happen. Often bad things happen to very good people. This can have a devastating impact on the lives of the injured party, along with the…
If you’ve been involved in a serious car accident, the police will generally come out to investigate the accident and lay charges on the at fault driver, if necessary. At the scene of the car accident, police officers are required to take notes. Some officers notes are more detailed (and…
The term “long term disability benefits” would lead one to believe that those benefits should last for a long time. But the term “long” can be misleading and subject to interpretation. Like many things in the practice of the law, the devil’s in the details and you gotta read the…
If you have been hurt or injured in a car accident in Ontario, you may be entitled to an income replacement benefit of up to $400/week (or more if you paid an additional insurance premium to increase your IRB level). $400/week isn’t very much money. But before you complain, all…
It’s hot. That means more people are outside doing “outdoorsey” stuff like hiking, cycling, rollerblading and skateboarding. The activities are suppose to be fun and safe. But sometimes things can go wrong. And when they do, our law firm usually hears about it. Accidents whereby skateboarders, cyclists and rollerbladers are…