I’ve been watching a lot of youth soccer games of late. My son plays a lot of soccer. Given my son’s young age, more experienced referees are not assigned to officiate his games. His referees tend to be young and inexperienced. They are looking at making a few extra bucks while contributing to a game they really enjoy. The problem is, that the games tend to get out of hand because the young, inexperienced referees lack the experience, poise and confidence to control the game. The game got so bad last week a parent from the opposing team walked onto the pitch during a water break to have a conv ..read more

This is not the first time which the Personal Injury Law Blog has declared that it all comes down to the facts in a personal injury law case (or any case for that matter). It’s nice to see Judges articulate what we have been saying all along in our blog entries. The case of Veerasingam v. Licence Appeal Tribunal, 2024 ONSC 3730 has little to do with personal injury law. There was no accident. Nobody was personally injured. This has to do with a person’s application for a salesperson license, and the appeal process throughout. But even before the background, facts or the law is discussed, the c ..read more

Jurisdiction is a term that we hear a lot in personal injury cases, but what does it really mean? Jurisdiction is the power of a Court to hear a case, and/or enforce the law. Jurisdiction also means “the extent of a power to make, or to enforce law, judgment or legal decision“. Which Court or Power has jurisdiction depends on a lot of factors. But, for the purpose of the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog, we will focus on jurisdiction in personal injury cases. As a rule of thumb, where the accident took place is a very good starting point for determining which Court has jurisdiction. For example: let ..read more

It’s not uncommon for pharmacies and pharmacists to make dispensing errors. Dispensing errors can get people very sick, cause prolonged disabilities, or even cause death. They are to be taken quite seriously. What is a dispensing error? In Ontario, you receive prescription mediation outside of a hospital setting from a licensed pharmacy/pharmacist. This means that you don’t go to the corner store to buy prescription medication from a random corner store owner. A dispensing error occurs when a pharmacy/pharmacist dispenses the wrong medication to a patient. Or, dispenses the right mediation, bu ..read more

It’s golf season. People use golf carts on golf courses. People get injured using golf carts. Sounds really weird when you put that in writing, but they’re all true statements! People get injured in very strange, and sometime very serious (often catastrophic) ways in the use or operating of golf carts. Do I have an explanation as to why this happens? I can put out a few theories: 1. Alcohol. Drinking on the golf course is a thing. Alcohol impairs your judgment. This impaired judgment and liquid courage to do things you normally wouldn’t can lead to disaster. 2. Inexperienced golf cart drivers ..read more

For those unfamiliar with personal injury law, and more specifically, the law surrounding motor vehicle accidents (car crashes, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian-car accidents, bike-car accidents), the idea of what the law should be and how it works is perceived to be rather straight forward. Car accident. Innocent accident victim not at fault. They were in the wrong place, and the wrong time and sustained injuries. Those injuries ought to be compensated by the car insurer for the at fault driver. Case closed. Unfortunately, that’s not the way things work in Ontario. We have take an easy to und ..read more

You have been bitten by a dog. The dog bite isn’t a small one. Rather, it’s quite a serious injury which will leave permanent and emotional scaring. Your local Animal Control Unit is investigating the case, and has filed charges against the Dog Owner. But the charges, and the potential conviction will not pay for your past or future care costs, let alone compensate you for the pain and suffering which you have endured. You retain a personal injury lawyer (hopefully one from Goldfinger Injury Lawyers) to help you get the compensation which you deserve. If your case went to trial, you would win ..read more

Sometimes personal injury cases are investigated by the police. Sometimes, criminal, or quasi criminal charges will be laid on the Defendant (the at fault party). What does this mean for your personal injury case, and how will your personal injury case be impacted by these charges and the ensuing police investigation? Good questions! This edition of the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog will attempt to answer those questions, and more! Criminal and quasi criminal charges happen in all types of personal injury cases. In drunk driving cases, people are charged with the criminal offense of impaired driv ..read more

On June 22, 1990, the Ontario Government introduced the threshold for general damages in car accident cases. This meant that each injury needed to be deemed as a “serious and permanent impairment” of an important physical or psychological function. If the personal injury did not meet the medico legal threshold in the eyes of a Judge, then the case on damages for pain and suffering would fail,; regardless of fault. This seemed rather harsh to an innocent accident victim, but it was the new state of car accident law in the Province of Ontario. The reason the threshold was introduced by the Ontar ..read more

Law shows on television make the litigation process look so easy! Why can’t my personal injury case work like that? There’s generally a formula for legal dramas on television. That formula has worked for a very long time for shows like Law and Order. Within the first 5-7 minutes (or earlier) there is a crime or some sort of problem which requires police intervention. The next 8-15 minutes, that crime is investigated by the police at the scene of the crime and research is done at the police station. Witnesses are interviewed, different characters are introduced. The viewers are led to believe o ..read more