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Victims of Assaults: Avenues for Compensation
For victims of assaults, the appropriate first steps are to get appropriate medical attention and to contact the police or other authorities (for example, the Children’s Aid Society). In many cases, it is crucial that the investigation gets started as soon as...
Who Should Bear the Cost of Accident Benefits Disputes?
Injured victims depend on Accident Benefits under the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule1 (“SABS”) for income replacement and a variety of healthcare benefits to assist them with their recovery after a motor vehicle accident. Unfortunately, injured victims’ SABS...
Claims Against Nursing Homes
In January 2018 the CBC aired a Marketplace investigation concerning nursing homes, Crying Out for Care. The program documented the disturbing reality at some nursing homes today. According to the report, violence, abuse, and neglect are experienced by seniors and...
Family Law Act Claims
The victim of a car crash or other injury is rarely alone, as their injury often has a serious impact on their family. The victim may need to depend on their family members for personal care, transportation, and other forms of assistance. They may also lose the...
Proposed Change to Pre-Judgment Interest Rates Would Hurt Innocent Accident Victims
Ontario's provinical government has introduced legislation to reduce the prejudgment interest rate for pain and suffering damages in car acidents from 5% to 1.3%. This is yet another step that will have the effect of taking money from innocent accident victims and...
Sail, Not Drift: Boating Safety
The late former U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, wrote that “To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift”. Being purposeful and aware are critical to safe boating as more than 100 people are killed and many more are seriously...
Move Your Soul Safely: Motorcycle Accident Injuries and Safety Recommendations
A famous motorcyclist mantra reads: “Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul”. To many, motorcycling is as calming as it is exciting, but when motorcycle riders are involved in accidents, the resulting injuries can be more than unnerving – they can be...
Keeping a Young Mind: Senior Driver Safety
Henry Ford, the automotive juggernaut founder and captain of industry, said, “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young”. When it comes to senior drivers...
Look Well To The Spine For The Cause of Disease: Spinal Cord Injuries
The pioneering Greek physician Hippocrates, known as “The Father of Western Medicine”, said “Look well to the spine for the cause of disease". Hippocrates’ insight is as acute today as it was more than two thousand years ago – given the spine’s essential function,...
Carefulness Costs You Nothing: Careless Driving May Cost You Your Life
During the Progressive Era of the 1900’s, a period characterized by widespread social activism and political reform in the United States, public health and safety concerns took the form of awareness campaigns. One such campaign proclaimed: “Carefulness costs you...
See the Safe Path: Truck Accidents and Personal Injury
Noted poet and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau, wrote that it’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. When you look at personal injury accidents involving commercial transport trucks, you may only see catastrophic consequences. But, we are here to...
With You at Every Stop: Bus Accidents and Personal Injury
Oprah Winfrey said that lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. We are that someone – there for you when a crisis arises and providing you with support to get you where...