When I first started the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog, I often ended each entry with a short blurb about my favourite sports team; the Toronto Raptors. I’ve been a Toronto Raptors fan since Day 1. I was an NBA basketball fan long before the Raptors came to Toronto, so convincing…
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Personal Responsibility in a Personal Injury Case
Finding a personal injury lawyer who is knowledgeable, kind, sympathetic, and who will fight hard for you is important. A good personal injury lawyer will listen, and give you advice to hopefully put you in a better position to move forward. But, a personal injury lawyer doesn’t live with you.…
Driving in the 1960’s vs. Driving Today: A Study in Distracted Driving
Distracted driving kills, just like drunk driving kills. Driving requires concentration and focus. Today’s cars and our mobile technology try to shift our driving focus away from the road, and on to some type of screen. Lots of beeps, lights and vibrations to get us looking anywhere but on the…
The biggest secret in personal injury law….
The law, above all else, ought to be transparent. It should NOT be a secret society whereby only industry insiders have knowledge, power and insight that the general public does not have. When a personal injury case goes to trial, the jury should be informed of how things work, so…
Suing your Employer for a Workplace Injury
Our law firm gets a lot of calls from injured workers. They have very serious injuries and wish to sue their employer. They allege that their employer was negligent; allowed for unsafe work conditions to exist which they knew, or ought to have known of; or permitted the worker to…
Brian Goldfinger and the Case of the Catastrophic Car Accident
Car accidents happen. They are unpredictable and don’t discriminate based on age, gender, religion and socio-economic status. They happen to poor people, rich people, middle class people, retired people, disabled people and gainfully employed people. There isn’t any method to the selection of an accident victim. It’s completely random. Serious…
Non Earner Benefits: What are they?
Let’s break things down in really easy to understand terms. If you have been involved in a car accident, you are entitled to accident benefits from your own car insurance company. If you didn’t have car insurance at the time of the accident because you were a passenger, cyclist or…
Getting a Personal Injury Case Inside of a Courtroom
My articling principal was called to the Bar in 1978. For the first decade or so of his practice, he was in Court nearly every day. He was in Court for motions, pre-trials and trials. Because he was in Court so often, it was absolutely necessary that his office be…
Starting a personal injury case arising from a car accident
I’ve been involved in a car accident. How do I start my personal injury case? This should be an easy question. And it was a much easier question to answer in the 70’s or in the 80’s. But in 2022, car accident law along with car accident cases have become…
Treatment after a car accident in Ontario
Many clients and prospective clients want to know where they should go for treatment after a serious car accident in Ontario. It’s a common question because there are so many options and there is no “right way” of doing it. But there is certainly a wrong way of getting treatment.…