Category: Personal Injury Lawyer

Residents of Ontario appreciate their responsibility, with respect to paying a tax, one that reflects the size of their income. Does the government view settlement money as income? Is that taxed? (more…)

Whenever a newborn baby has a defect that threatens to present both the child and the parents with lifelong problems, the members of the affected family must deal with what is known as a birth trauma. Any one from the whole list of unfortunate events could force an obstetrician to tell a mother and father that their newborn has suffered a birth trauma. (more…)

Normally, the person that has filed a personal injury claim has chosen to sue someone that was careless and neglectful. That negligent individual behaved in a way that resulted in harm to another human. Depending on the extent to which the victim was harmed, the negligent defendant might have caused a wrongful death. (more…)

The person that has chosen to file a personal injury lawsuit could have one of several different reasons for taking that specific action. For that reason, there are different aspects to each of the resulting personal injury cases. (more…)

Before a personal injury case gets heard in a courtroom, insurance companies have the largest say, regarding who might be found at fault for a given accident. Once the same case gets to court, the judge and jury consider several different factors, when seeking to determine which party should be held responsible for any given accident. (more…)

The term “underside accident” does not refer to the site of the damage, but rather to the agent that can-do harm to a specific type of vehicle. A car becomes involved in an underside accident if it slides under a truck’s trailer. Such an occurrence has been known to take place at the time of a rear end of side collision. (more…)

If you have fallen ill or been injured severely enough to be made incapable of completing major work-related tasks, then you may be in a position in which you require disability coverage in order to financially support yourself. A significant part of Canadians will rely on such benefits at one point or another throughout their life. When it comes to long-term disability benefits, some employees will be able to access them via their employer, while others are required to purchase their coverage themselves. You might want to talk with a lawyer to know more about your custom case for more information. (more…)

The Simplified Procedure serves as an alternate option to the small claims court in some instances. Its purpose is to handle cases which have been estimated to bear value between $25,000 to $100,000 in regard to matters surrounding civil litigation. This estimated value excludes costs and interests. (more…)

A motion is described as a court procedure, or application to the courts by a lawyer to obtain a court order from a judge or court master. A court master is a court official that has been appointed in some civil matters to hear and make a decision regarding a motion and decide who will pay associated motion costs. Court masters can hear a motion in weeks compared to waiting months for a judge to hear a motion. The party referred to as the moving party as they initiated the motion and the responding party is the person or party the motion is directed toward. (more…)

Adults tend to note the development of eye problems. An adult that has been in an accident should have a sense for the sorts of messages sent by such a problem. A child that has been in an accident might not have that same awareness of what to watch for. Hence, the child’s parents must learn how the eye can signal the presence of a concussion. (more…)