Ontario's Car Accident Injury Insurance Deductibles and Punishing Laws
Ontario is once again considering making changes to our Province's Car Accident Injury Insurance regime for personal injury victims. What is missed is that our current laws punish the innocent and let the guilty off scot-free. While you might agree that the insurance industry needs deductibles, you may be surprised that the innocent are paying 100% of them, while the guilty pay $0 for personal injury from car accidents.
Plead now and it may cost you later
Effect of convictions in personal injury lawsuits for car accidents and other injuries by Whitby Personal Injury Lawyer Steven Polak
Personal Injury Laws Also Apply to Boating-Related Accidents
With by far the largest provincial population, four great lakes on our southern and southeast borders, as well thousands of rivers and lakes, it’s little wonder that Ontario households have the greatest recreational boat ownership rate of all Canadian provinces. In fact, some reports suggest that more than 40% of all Ontario households own at least one boat.
Oshawa Courthouse's trial sittings with no jury
Personal Injury Lawyer in Whitby discusses the Court's new notice to the profession for car accident lawsuits and personal injury cases going to trial in Durham Region at the Oshawa Courthouse.
Injured by a Defective Product?—How to Protect Your Legal Rights
If you have been injured by a defective product in Ontario through no fault of your own, you have the right through product liability laws to seek compensation for medical costs, pain and suffering, and any related losses, such as income. However, the legal system puts the onus on the victim to prove that the product’s design or manufacture was defective in a manner that was unreasonably dangerous to the consumer and/or his property. Liability can also be established if the victim can prove that potential dangers relating to use of the product were not adequately expressed to the consumer (known as “failure to warn”).
Canadian Lawyer Magazine again ranks Lerners LLP as one of the top 10 regional Law Firms for 2021
Canadian Lawyer Magazine has, for 2021, again ranked Lerners LLP among its Top 10 Regional Law Firms (Lerners placed 5th)
