Family Law Claims When you sustain a personal injury from a car accident, slip and fall or other accident, your injury can be detrimental to your normal lifestyle. However, those close to you may also be gravely impacted due to an injury that you sustained, despite them not being physically injured. It is because of …
Pain and Suffering Compensation Simply Defined by Oakville Lawyers Heard your lawyer throw around this term? Read it online? General Damages sounds pretty boring – or general but it’s actually the money paid to you as compensation. Damages by definition is essentially the same as compensation. A leading legal dictionary defines “damages” as “every person …
I am injured and I keep hearing the term “general damages.” What the heck is this? Read More »
Nearly 50K Judgment Against Premiere Fitness for Not Having Proper Functioning Cleaning System in Place When Man Injured. In the recent case of Dhaliwal v. Premier Fitness the plaintiff Sukhjinder Dhaliwal sued premier fitness for a personal injury he suffered while exercising on a weight machine. He sought damages for pain and suffering, as well as …
Plaintiff awarded 49K for Amputated Finger Injury at Premiere Fitness Read More »
Judge Rules that Defendant did not react in self-defence. The Toronto Star posted a great article here a few days ago about a Moses Mahilal who came home to find someone in his mother’s house. He made a beeline for the kitchen, grabbed a large knife and ran upstairs, where he confronted the intruder hiding behind …
This was NOT self-defence. Fist Fight Brings Victim $55,000.00 in Damages. Read More »
Oakville Lawyers $75,000 awarded to Plaintiff for Broken Leg A Oakville Court awarded a plaintiff, Ms. Elizabeth Ann Riehl $75,000.00, amongst other damages, for a broken tibial plateau and loosened front teeth. The tibial plateau, or the actual diagnosis of an undisplaced fracture of the medial tibial plateau which, in common parlance, is a crack …
Plaintiff awarded $75,000.00 for a broken leg in trip over broken Oakville sidewalk. Read More »
Oakville Lawyers Car Accidents and the “Threshold” We often make case comments about the Bill 198 threshold. Based on this our clients have asked us for a better definition of the threshold. The threshold applies if you were involved in a collision involving the use or operation of a motor vehicle as defined by the …
What is this “threshold” that lawyers keep talking about??? Read More »
If you are injured by the carelessness or negligence of another person you have a civil right to claim damages. There are various types of damages (or compensation) that you can claim, one of which being the loss of income – either past, future or both. You might ask the question how is this determined …
How is your loss of income determined if you cannot work because of your injuries? Read More »
The plaintiff, Michael Smith, in the case of Michael Smith vs Matthew DeClute, Daimler Chrysler Financial Services Canada and the Personal Insurance Company of Canada failed to pass the Bill 198 threshold. In fact, the entire plaintiff’s case did not seem to go so well at all – and in the end was dismissed. It …
