Personal injury firm subject to several adverse decisions by Ontario judges
Last month, in the case of Hernandez v. Lariviere, Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Lofchik refused to reinstate the claim of a Ferro & Co. client after the registrar issued an order dismissing the action for delay. Lofchik wrote that the firm’s principal, Lou Ferro, had displayed inaction that could “fairly be interpreted as both intentional and deliberate.”
Citing three previous decisions on motions to set aside dismissals for delay involving Ferro’s firm, Lofchik said in his Dec. 15 decision that it was “far past time for Mr. Ferro to take responsibility for his actions and for the court to respond to a clear pattern of inattentiveness and neglect.”