It’s amazing to me how many people don’t know what to do after they’ve been involved in a car accident in Ontario. Before you call a personal injury lawyer and we get into all the legal mumbo jumbo; there are a few basic and common sense steps which you will…
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Back to School Safety Tips from Personal Injury Lawyer Brian Goldfinger
We aren’t tone deaf at the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog. Back to School is around the corner. But Back to School 2021 in the midst of a looming 4th wave during the Global Pandemic brings a new unprecedented set of worries and anxieties for parents, teachers and students. The large…
A lesson in suppressing the Will of the Jury & leaving them in the dark for car accident cases
Car accident insurers love jury trials. How do I know this? Because in 99% of the car accident cases I have seen, Jury Notices are filed by the Defendant Insurer. If car insurers didn’t LOVE juries, they wouldn’t file jury notices so often. What explains the car insurance industry’s affection…
Personal Injury Pandemic Trends and Predictions for 2022
The Global Pandemic has been hard on people for different reasons. Those reasons may be economic, social, psychological, health related, something else, or a combination of a variety of factors. Whatever the reason might be, the Global Pandemic has impacted all of us in one way, shape or form. The…
Your personal injury lawyer should believe in you!
You have to believe in your own case. If you don’t believe in it, then who will? If you don’t care, then who will? If you don’t try to help yourself, then who will. While this may sound like self respect or motivational mumbo jumbo; it’s true! A good personal…
The Division of Policy Limits is a Zero Sum Game in Car Accident Cases (Ontario)
If you’ve sustained serious and permanent injuries in car accident, you recover damages against the at fault driver. Standard policy limits in Ontario sit at $1,000,000. Ontarians can purchase optional benefits to increase their coverage, but only few ever pick up that option (mostly personal injury lawyers, insurance adjusters, insurance brokers…
Consent is the big issue for determining coverage in a car accident case (Ontario)
Has someone other than you driven your car without your knowledge? What happens if that mystery person gets in to a car accident? What happens if you knowingly loan your vehicle to someone else to drive; and that person gets in to a car accident; but it turns out that…
Accident Benefits: If you don’t use ’em; you’ll lose ’em!
After you’ve been seriously injured, or even not so seriously injured in a car accident, or motorcycle accident in Ontario, the injured party; regardless of fault is entitle to accident benefits. This is what Ontario’s “no fault” scheme of accident benefits is all about. If you are not at fault…
What to do following a car accident
It’s amazing that no matter how many times we write about it; speak about it; or broadcast our thoughts on radio, podcast, newspaper or television; that so few people know what to do after a car accident in Ontario. This is very important, because there are tight time lines which…
OCF-1
The OCF-1 Application for Accident Benefits is the first, and arguably, the most important form for starting any accident benefit claim following a car accident. If you don’t know what accident benefits are; you can learn all about them on the Goldfinger Injury Lawyers Website, or the Toronto Injury Lawyers…