What happens when someone hits you with their vehicle, and they drive off from the accident scene? The at fault driver is unidentified. The collision took place so quickly, that you weren’t able to get a license plate number. The at fault driver obviously didn’t stop to check if you…
I had an in person attendance in Court for the first time since I can remember dating back to when the Pandemic shut down the Courts. During the Pandemic, and afterwards, most Courts have opted for virtual attendances. This has lead to increased efficiency for our Courts. They can do…
Nobody is perfect. People make mistakes. Sometimes they are honest mistakes. Other times, they are avoidable. We certainly don’t expect regulated professionals to make mistakes, but they do. It happens. But, when a pharmacist makes an error, it can be deadly or result in very serious health consequences. When a…
When I was a young lawyer, I worked at a law firm in Yorkville that had 2 dogs and a cat. I had never worked in any office environment that had any sort of animal. Having a dog, or a cat, let alone multiple animals in a law office, seemed…
When I was a young personal injury lawyer, an odd case appeared on my desk. The Plaintiff was an older automobile executive, who broke 3 vertebrae, torn his rotator cuff and fractured his skull in a car accident. The injuries were quite significant. They prevented the client from returning to…
One of my biggest predictions coming out of COVID Lockdowns and the COVID Pandemic would be the rise of assaults. After many months of being locked down and shut out of social interaction, people forgot how to be kind to one another. We forgot how to share public spaces. We…
Sexual assault cases are tricky. Not because the sexual assault itself didn’t happen. Not because the Plaintiff hasn’t been very seriously hurt and seriously impacted by the sexual assault. Sexual assault cases are tricky because they can take so much out of the Plaintiff him/herself. For starters, it’s really hard…
The entire field of personal injury law is rather effective at making sure that accident victims aren’t unjustly enriched by the benefits or moneys which they receive in their case. Cases have been fought all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada to make sure that innocent accident victims…
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…
One of my young personal injury lawyers and I had a chat following an Examination for Discovery. He was quite surprised by the tone which the lawyers for the insurance company took with our client. The lawyers were mean, nasty, rude, snarky and did not give our client the benefit…