Category: Personal Injury FAQ’s

This article should not be viewed as a word of encouragement to someone that does not want to pay for legal counsel. In fact, no one should think seriously about such a money-saving move. After all, few members of the public possess the same level of expertise that can be found in a member of the legal profession. Read More

In agreeing to the compensation for the victim of an accident, the lawyers from both sides agree that the promised benefits should return the same victim to his or her original position. In other words, that return should make sure that the victim’s new position could not be perceived as a come-down from the one that had been held previously. By the same token, it should not be one that could be described as a marked improvement over the original. Read More

The law does not look kindly on those that have been careless and neglectful. In fact, the legal system has established a means for punishing an obvious demonstration of negligence. Still, such a punishment cannot be sanctioned, until the negligence has been proven. Read More

There exists among some of those that have become disabled, a need for financial help. Some states have created a program that provides income support to disabled individuals. Read More

Some people lack extensive knowledge of the law; therefore, those same people often hesitate to sue someone, even someone that has harmed them. That level of hesitancy can become quite strong, if that harm seems to have been done by a physician. Still, there are also those that seem to jump at the chance to sue a doctor. Read More

Under provisions of tort law, a victim can ask to be compensated for pain and suffering. So how does such compensation relate to something called “the Trilogy”? Someone that seeks to understand that relationship needs to become more familiar with tort law. Read More

Lawyers understand how desperate an accident victim might be for some form of monetary compensation. Of course, the person that has insured the accused driver recognizes the extent to which a victim’s desire for compensation could be used to an advantage. The longer the delay in the delivery of that compensation, the greater the amount of time until the victim’s phone might ring. Read More

At the time of an accident, the person that has become the victim has the right to seek just compensation. For that reason, the injured driver or passenger should ask for information on the company that is insuring the other driver. Yet that clear process does not put an end to a victim’s chances for winning a just compensation, after being injured by a hit and run driver. Read More

Personal injury lawyers seek a just compensation for all sorts of accident victims. While each victim’s case is unique, each victim can be expected to ask one particular question at some stage of the investigative/settlement process. Read More

Distracted Driving and Your Legal Rights

Today we find more and more accidents being caused by what is called “the distracted driver”. Because of new handheld technology, we find that drivers are becoming far more distracted with less attention on the road in front of them. Distracted driving is not only a problem here in Ontario and the GTA but is becoming a problem in most parts of the world. A driver using a phone while operating a motor vehicle is four times as likely to cause a crash than one who is focusing on the road. In fact in Ontario alone, data from 2013 shows that a person is injured in a distracted driving accident every half hour. One person is killed on Ontario’s roads every 17 hours. Read More