Category: Personal Injury Faq’s

Why would a personal injury lawyer care about contacting the institution responsible for an unsafe roadway? Because lawyers understand the timeframe in which such an action must be carried out. Read More

While employed, working Canadians enjoy the privilege of being able to make regular contributions to the Canadian Pension Plan (CPP). Those who have made such contributions become eligible for disability benefits, upon being deprived of the ability to work, due to illness or injury. Read More

If you have recently been involved in an accident which left you injured, then you may be thinking about filing a personal injury claim in order to obtain compensation for your losses. However, before you jump into the deep end, it is best to learn about defense strategies first, so you can prepare properly for what may be heading your way as a plaintiff. If you are the defendant yourself, then this article will also be a helpful guide that will offer you quite a few tools to build your defense strategy on, in order to avoid being declared (wholly) liable for causing the accident. Read More

At the time of an independent medical exam, the word independence might be used in reference to the degree to which the examining doctor comes under any level of oversight. That same physician is supposed to fill the role of a third party. Read More

First, we should establish what an underside accident is. This highly specified type of accident commonly takes place on highways and involves a large truck and a small car. Upon collision, usually a side- or rear-end-collision, the car is then squeezed underneath the truck’s trailer. The result of such a collision can be severe. Victims are often left heavily injured and cars left as a total loss. This is because the smaller vehicle will often be dragged across the road, if not fully crushed by the truck’s trailer. In some cases, the trailer will be at the exact height of the driver or their passenger, which can lead to severe, if not fatal, injuries. Read More

If an automobile insurance company refuses to accept a charge that one if its policy holders is liable for a given accident, the injured victim must use the trial system, in order to seek compensation. Victims that have been forced to use that system must sue another one of the parties involved in a particular accident. Normally, that other party happens to be another driver. Read More

According to the law, the driver of a taxi cab can be held liable for a passenger’s injuries, if that driver has breached his duties. One of those duties concerns stopping safely, when picking up or dropping off a passenger. Drivers that fail to stop safely can be declared negligent. Read More

Following an injury which was sustained while you were under the care of a medical healthcare professional, you may have a medical malpractice case on your hands. Such a case would require you to obtain evidence that your injuries were sustained as the result of negligent behavior on the part of your health care provider, other medical staff, the medical facility, or the pharmaceutical company which provided your medicine. Read More

The purpose of long-term disability insurance is to ensure a steady income for members of society who have become incapable of work due to a severe, long term disability. A large number of big scale corporations have begun to add disability insurance to the benefit packages of their employees. If you are not employed at such a corporation, you will be able to purchase your own private disability insurance which provides the same coverage under the same circumstances. Special policies are also available for surgeons, athletes, or the like, if they wish to obtain certain benefits in the event of a disability sustained while they practice their profession. Read More

Just because your disability insurance claim was denied doesn’t mean that it’s all over. Regardless of whether you have filed a claim for employer disability, following a denial, they both allow for an appeal on your part. Even more than once if that is what it takes. However, when it comes to private disability insurance, things may be a little more complicated and may require that you seek legal counsel to take a closer look at your policy. Statistically, it has been found that not even a third of all claims meet immediate approval, so you should definitely not give up. Especially not right away. Read More