Hiring a lawyer to handle your personal injury case is a serious matter that requires careful consideration. What kind of questions should you ask yourself and others in order to make an informed choice? How would you go about choosing one – especially if you’ve never needed one before?
In Moore v. Sweet, the court set aside a motion judge’s decision to grant $250,000 in proceeds of a dead man’s insurance policy to a former wife, Michelle Moore, who had been paying policy premiums, instead of giving them to his common law wife, Risa Sweet.
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The Ontario Court of Appeal has revived the chances for recovery by workers who have had their workers’ compensation benefits cut because of preexisting conditions.
A class action against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, which was previously quashed by the Superior Court of Justice, is alive again.
In today’s case (Wee v. Fowler) the Plaintiff was involved in a vehicle collision and sued for damages. In the course of the lawsuit an order was made that the Plaintiff attend a defence medical exam. When the Plaintiff attended the doctor required a consent form to be signed. The Plaintiff refused and the exam did not take place.
I write this letter to those in Ontario who have yet to receive their latest bill for automobile insurance. Mine arrived last week and I was shocked to find that my liability coverage was reduced from $3 million to $1.21 million.
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It doesn’t matter that personal injury lawyers have a reputation for being predatory ambulance-chasers, more concerned with making a buck than with seeking justice; nor does it matter that this reputation is not entirely undeserved, even if it may get exaggerated by pop culture portrayals and the tasteless ways some injury lawyers choose to advertise their services. It is still a very bad policy idea to legally cap lawyers’ contingency fees at 15 per cent.
A recent Ontario Superior Court ruling has provided some clarity on how the fault attribution rules ought to be applied to loss transfer disputes in the case of chain-reaction accidents, Barrie personal injury lawyer Steve Rastin writes in The Lawyer’s Daily.
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Only one in three Canadians who experience a mental health problem or illness seeks and receives services or treatment. The wrong time to prepare for a crisis is when you’re in it. We need to better equip people to identify a mental health problem, and teach them when to ask for help and how to find it.