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Goldfinger Injury Lawyers is celebrating Brain Injury Awarness Month by donating 100 bike helmets to children in need. Donations have been made to communities in Toronto, London and Peterbourough. Bike accidents, and cyclists wearing helmets are the number 1 preventer of head and brain injury. There has been a lot of discussion as of late in news about what laws and legistlation either need, or don’t need to be enacted in order to prevent brain injury.
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99% of motor vehicle cases settle outside of Toronto’s Courtrooms. Just 1% of those cases actually go to trial. Trials have essentially gone the way of the Dodo (pronounced Dough Dough). Have you even heard of the Dodo Bird? Probably not. They’ve been extinct for many years.

There are many reasons for the decrease in the amount of trials. Here are just a few of those reasons:

1. Mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods have fostered more out of Court settlements.

2. Trials are expensive and very time consuming. Some car accident cases can take months to go through by the time all of the medical evidence is compiled.
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Ontario has a lot of problems:

Healtcare Poverty Unemployment A stagnant economy Poor schools Slow Courts Decaying/Lack of Infrastructure
But of all these problems, Ontario government has not taken any meaninful steps to make a change. You would think that the problems listed above are very important socio-economic issues which ought to be addressed by government in one way, shape or form. You would think that all of these issues would rank higher when it comes to government policy over something as trivial as car insurance, or the implications of insurance after a car accident. But you’re wrong! Dead wrong!
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Let me share a story with you. When a personal injury action settles, and there are minors involved (minors being persons under the age of 18), the Court will need to approve the settlement. baby.jpg

The reason the personal injury settlement needs to be approved by a personal injury law judge, is because the Court wants to ensure that minors aren’t taken advantage of. Imagine what would happen if….
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It seems as if every criminal lawyer across the City of Toronto has been interviewed about the murder trial of Michael Rafferty. In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, Michael Rafferty was recently found guilty of 1st degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault on Victoria Stafford of Woodstock Ontario.

So, what does this Toronto Personal Injury Lawyer have to say about this criminal trial? First: thank goodness it’s over. I can’t fathom what the Stafford Family has been going through over the past 3 years. Imagine the pain, anxiety, hate, rage, suffering, and sadness the Stafford family has endured over this period of time. You can’t put it into words.

Secondly: the law really needs to change on the status of warrants in the country. Why you ask?
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I’m constantly asked time and time again when the best time is to sue in their personal injury, car accident or brain injury case. The only right answer to any of these questions is to sue in your case before your limitation period expires. That’s legal advice you can bet your house on.

Limitation periods in personal injury cases vary. It doesn’t matter the location of the accident. The laws for limitation periods in injury case are not all the same.
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Ontario Minister of Finance Dwight Duncan and Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty have released the Ontario provincial budget. Ever read a provincial budget? Well, here’s the Ontario 2012 version in all its glory. Long read. Hard to understand. Hard to find what it is you want. LIkely all on purpose so the common person wouldn’t bother going through the thousands and thousands of pages, tables, graphs, pie charts etc.

The budget is full of cuts, proposals to increase revenue, austerity measures, economic forecasts etc. The budget impacts a wide variety of sectors from education, to health, to transportation. Even gambling and liquor sales are covered in the budget.

You might be asking why a Toronto Personal Injury Lawyer is focusing so much on the Ontario provincial budget.
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Examination for discovery can make or break an accident victim’s case, so this article is an important read if you have an upcoming examination for discovery in a personal injury case.

What is an examination for discovery? In the United States, they’re referred to as “depositions“. Here they’re referred to as “discoveries”.

Basically, you and your lawyer are asked questions from the opposing lawyer. The questioning takes place at a Court Reporter’s offices, which is essentially a board room. The Court Reporter records everything that’s said during the discovery and makes a record of it. Everything that’s said during the discovery, while on the record, is on the record and will be used against you at trial. If your testimony at trial doesn’t jive with your testimony at trial, the opposing lawyer will try to paint you out to the Court as an unreliable source of information whose testimony cannot be relied upon. What you say at discovery will be held against you. Your words matter, so be mindful of what you say.
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People ask me all the time: how do insurance companies put a price tag on my personal injury case? How can they arbitrarily put a price tag on my life; on my income loss; on my pain and suffering!!! I’m getting mad just thinking about this. Who do they think they are!?!?!?

Seems like such a subjective exercise; doesn’t it?

Remain calm my keener friends. There’s some method to the madness which makes up a personal injury law claim.

One thing you need to understand, is that personal injury damages aren’t lumped together into one big pot of stew like you may think. On the contrary, there are many different heads to personal injury law damages. Goldfinger Injury Lawyers knows all about these heads of damages. It’s what we do.
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It’s that time of year when we get a lot of calls regarding slip and fall cases. The calls come from all over. Toronto, London, Peterborough, Oshawa, Richmond Hill. You name the place in Ontario; one of our Personal Injury Lawyers has probably fielded a call over the past month from that locale.

Why so many slip and fall personal injury inquiries to Goldfinger Injury Lawyers around this time of year? Well, for starters, we’re pretty darn good at what we do. Every day, we help Ontario accident victims get the compensation they deserve for their personal injury claims. Having law offices in Toronto, London and Peterborough doesn’t hurt either.
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