Category: Personal Injury FAQ’s

Accidents in Ontario share at least one feature with accidents that take place anywhere. The legal system has been set up so that some person gets held responsible for the injuries and losses that have resulted from that accidental occurrence. Read More

Patients in a hospital interact with more than the doctors. Various members of the hospital’s staff perform services for each patient. Can a dissatisfied patient sue the hospital for a mistake made while someone was offering a service? Read More

Insurance companies do not invite the start of negotiations. In fact, the insurer does not assign an adjuster to a personal injury claim from an accident victim until that same claimant/victim has sent a demand letter. Read More

As medical advances make it possible to prolong patients’ lives, the medical consent form takes on an ever-widening number of uses. Of course, it continues to fulfill its primary function. Read More

Any article about herniated disc injuries would be incomplete without a good description of each disc in the backbone. The backbone consists of a series of vertebrae. Each of the discs hold one vertebra in place; at the same time, each of them keeps that specific vertebra from rubbing against any other vertebrae. Read More

Because a show of negligence means being careless or neglectful, it might seem strange to consider the possible negligence of the victim. Still, a victim’s unwillingness to be careful about those acts that might hurt him or her does suggest a tendency to be negligent. How does the law deal with evidence that a plaintiff/ victim has exhibited such a tendency? Read More

The Canadian government pays experts that devote their time to checking for discovery of some defect in a product being sold to consumers. It also pays inspectors, who check on the contents of product labels. Such inspections lead to the amassing of lots of information. Read More

Even when a parking lot contains scores of parked cars, those few that might be moving to or from a spot pose a definite danger. That is due to the possible direction of their movement, combined with the possible attitude of the driver. Read More

Underside accidents occur very often. These types of accidents refer to a highway accident occurs when a small car collides with a large truck and the car then ends up underneath the trailer of the truck. Read More

Every surgical patient must sign a form before undergoing the scheduled operation. That form states that the same patient understands and accepts the known risks, which have become associated with any surgery. Commission of an error that falls in the region beyond the known risks qualifies as an example of medical malpractice. Read More