Winter time means slip and fall accidents on account of snow, ice, sleet a slush. These slip and fall cases can cause serious injuries to innocent visitors to public (or private) spaces. Think of a parking lot at a school, university, grocery store, or a shopping mall that isn’t properly…
Cold weather! Snow! Ice! Yikes! Winter means that you are either really excited because you happen to be a winter sports enthusiast (most people who love the winter also ski, snowshoe, play hockey and can’t get enough of the cold weather) or you are dreading what’s yet to come. Whether…
We get a lot of questions and queries to the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog. Some serious. Some not so serious. In today’s edition of the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog; Brian Goldfinger himself will answer those questions. Some serious answers. Others not so serious. So sit back, grab a nice hot…
Sometimes, during the course of a personal injury case, your lawyer will need to attend Court. But it’s neither for your trial, nor for pre-trial. It’s not even to set a date for trial, or to advise the Judge about the status of the case or readiness for trial. The…
Sometimes lawyers are upfront and direct. Other times, they can be sneaky. It’s those sneaky lawyers that you need to watch out for. In all of my years of practice, I’ve seen some sneaky stuff. Lawyers and insurers trying to add terms to agreements which weren’t previously discussed, or negotiated.…
As a personal injury lawyer, I would love to snap my “Goldfinger” and make all of my client’s dreams come true! I would snap my “Goldfinger” and my client’s cases would settle for billions and trillions and gazillions of dollars! I would snap my “Goldfinger” and my client’s cases would…
Chronic pain, fibromyalgia and depression are invisible. That means that they don’t show up on any x-ray, CT Scan, MRI or other diagnostic test. It also means that nobody would know that you are suffering from chronic pain, fibromyalgia or depression simply by just looking at you. It also means…
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…
Earlier this week Chief Justice Morawetz gave his address at the traditional “Opening of the Courts” for Ontario. Calling it the “Opening of the Courts” is likely very confusing for the general public. To be clear, the Courts were not “closed” before that time. But every year around this time…
Insurance companies along with their third party contractor occupational therapists and rehabilitation companies seek to take advantage of innocent accident victims when they are at their most vulnerable. Immediately following a serious accident. Innocent accident victims are shook following a serious car accident. Their world has been turned upside-down. They…