Litigating Long Term Disability Claims (LTD Claims) can be tricky, especially when the injury is an invisible one; such as chronic pain or a psychological injury. Firstly, it’s important to note that Long Term Disability Claims aren’t your typical tort or pain and suffering claims. These are special sort of…
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Winter Weather Car Accidents along Highway 115 around Peterborough: A Case Study
Goldfinger Injury Lawyers has four offices. Our first office opened in Toronto. This was followed by our second office in Peterborough. Our lawyers have long driven up and down a beautiful stretch of highway known has Highway #115. This is an Ontario Provincial Highway that connects Peterborough to Toronto by…
Winter Time is Slip and Fall Time: Quick tips on what to do following a slip and fall (Ontario
As the title of this edition of the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog suggests, Winter Time is Slip and Fall time. When the weather starts to get cold, damp, slippery and icy, our law firm sees a spike in slip and fall related calls (sweet rhyme!). Some of these slip and…
Tips on completing the OCF-18 Treatment Plan so you can get the treatment you deserve (Ontario)
After a serious car or motorcycle accident, chances are you will need a wide variety of treatment. Some of that treatment will be covered by Ontario’s OHIP Healtcare System. That means if you have a valid Ontario Health Card, it will be FREE. Seeing a medical doctor (not a chiropractor…
Personal Injury Law and Making A Murderer: Similarities and Differences
This Holiday break, my family didn’t go away on a nice vacation. We stayed in town. Our offices were open, and I worked. The cities I visited (Windsor, London, Leamington, Toronto, Peterborough) were all very quiet. It seemed like everyone was away somewhere else. The busiest place I saw was…
New Pedestrian Safety Driving Laws Kick in January 1, 2016 (Ontario)
Happy New Year to all of the readers of the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog! We hope that the upcoming new year brings you health, happiness and prosperity. We also want to thank all of our readers for their excellent comments, likes and shares. 2015 was a banner year for Goldfinger…
Goldfinger Injury Law’s tips on keeping things safe this Holiday Season (Ontario)
The Christmas lights have gone up. The festive parties are a plenty. The snow is….um…..non-existent with some of the highest temperatures Ontario has ever seen for December. In any event, it’s HOLIDAY time once again. Around this time, and in to the New Year, our lawyers get some strange, and…
Limitation Periods in Long Term Disability Claims challenged by RBC Life Insurance at Ontario Court of Appeal
Not too long ago, the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog focused on limitation periods in the context of Long Term Disability Claims, and how insurers will delay, delay, delay such that enough time has passed that they could ask the Court to dismiss your claim. Delay is the enemy of a…
Changes to Ontario Accident Benefit Claims are coming …yet again!
It seems that every few months or so, the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog is discussing the topics to changes in car insurance and accident benefit disputes in Ontario. Is it because we LOVE blogging about accident benefits? Not really. Accident benefits are quite frankly, an incredibly complicated and dense area…
Reasons why your Long Term Disability Claim (LTD Claim) is getting denied (Ontario)
Our law firm handles a wide variety of Long Term Disability (LTD) Claims against pretty much every deep pocketed insurer you can think of: Manulife, SunLife, Great West Life, Desjardins, SSQ, RBC Insurance, Empire Life, Canada Life, Industrial Alliance, Equitable Life, Co-Operators, Standard Life (Now Manulife). If you can name…