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I’m often asked at the first meeting with clients, how long will it take to settle the claim. The best answer I can give is ‘it depends’. It depends on many factors: the extent of the injuries, the amount of therapy/treatment required, whether specialist intervention is needed (long wait times), response to therapy, relapses or aggravations of the injuries, type …

The article this week is focused on the concept of ‘causation’. Part of what a plaintiff must prove is not only that the plaintiff suffered damages/injuries but more specifically that those damages/injuries were caused by the defendant. In most cases ‘causation’ will appear obvious, but in many cases it is not as clear. For example, what if the plaintiff had …

I am often called after someone has slipped and fallen at either a shopping mall or at a restaurant. Generally the caller tells me that there was something on the floor that they didn’t see and that they slipped on it and broke their arm, wrist, ankle etc. The fact that there was something on the floor (or that the …

The insurance industry has carefully crafted arguments, and then used their influence, to convince our government to bring in the ‘minor injury cap’ in 2004. The argument of the insurers was largely that they simply could not go on underwriting losses which were caused by numerous automobile claims for ‘soft tissue’ injuries. What follows is an extract from this years’ …

I often have prospective clients say to me, ‘the insurance company for the other driver admitted liability’ or ‘the insurance company for the other driver admitted liability because they paid for the repairs to my vehicle’. Insurers rarely admit liability. How does this impact you?

I regularly have clients call me to say that their own insurance company have told them that they only have either 10 or 21 treatments covered by their insurance policy. This is simply not the case, read on to find out why.

Occasionally I have people approach me who already have a lawyer. They may be concerned about a lack of communication from their lawyer, a failure to move their file along on a timely basis or a host of other reasons. They ask if they can transfer their file to another personal injury lawyer. If you’ve been in an accident, the …

We are providing this update from a previous post on a question that prospective clients routinely ask pertaining to the number of treatments they are ‘allowed’ according to their insurer. To put it simply the ’21 treatment’ limit is simply not the case.

I’m often asked how much is the person’s claim worth when they first meet with me. Generally anyone that will tell you what your claim is worth on the first meeting is inexperienced or ill-informed (or both). The reason for this is that your family doctor will be unwilling to give a prognosis (i.e. an opinion on what the future …