This might seem like a very niche topic for the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog as it relates specifically to Ontario teachers seeking to claim, or who have been denied long term disability benefits by The Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan (OTIP) The reality is that there are a lot of teachers out there.…
Recently, a post went viral on Tik Tok of a York Regional Police officer checking out his mobile device while driving at what appeared to be a high speed. It would seem unfair that a police officer would be driving around in his police cruiser checking out his cell phone…
Car insurance, and making a claim after a car accident in Ontario should be simple and straight forward. But, as a personal injury lawyer with two decades of experience in the field, I can tell you that it’s not. Far from it! In fact, car insurance and accident benefit claims…
The greater your injuries, the greater the value of your personal injury case. The same applies in the opposite. The less severe your injuries, the less value your personal injury case will have. It’s always good to have a healthy and high quality of life and a lower value personal…
Imagine for a moment that you have a personal injury case with a fast approaching Pre-Trial or Trial date. In the case, liability (how then accident happened and whose fault it is) along with damages are both hotly contested issues. At trial, both lawyers for the Plaintiff and the lawyers…
The feature article in this Saturday’s Globe & Mail was titled “The End of Winter: What We Lose When We Lose Winter“. To lose the season to climate change seems cataclysmic. I would agree. The article dealt with skiing in Rockies in Western Canada. There are challenges skiing when the…
The first long term disability case I had experience with came well before I was a personal injury/disability lawyer. It happened before I was in law school. It happened to my mom. She had just gone through multiple surgeries and had not recovered properly, or at all from them. She…
The case summary below, involves a car accident in Ontario. It’s not out of the ordinary. This is how many car accident cases across the province play out. The defendant insurer often insists that these cases proceed with a jury, instead of by way of Judge alone. I think the…
I’ve had a few interesting conversations over the past few days with some very thoughtful, rational, insightful and logical people. These people are not lawyers. They have no skin in the game when it comes to the field of personal injury law. That means that they are neither lawyers, insurance…
Personal injury cases are never as simple as they might appear to be. The case of an apparently simple slip and fall, just isn’t so simple. On the surface, the case is very easy to summarize. A person is walking on a private walkway. The walkway was not properly maintained…