Category: Personal Injury FAQ’s

You probably know or you’ve read that the majority of personal injury lawyers in Ontario offer to work under the contingency fees. Unfortunately, some of the contingency fee agreements in the province have been under a thorough attack. However, this remains the most preferable way of handling the lawyer’s payment in these sorts of cases. Even though it poses a lot of different benefits for the client, contingency fee agreements are not an uncomplicated matter that doesn’t require any oversight. This is why the following is going to provide you with a brief insight on the things that you might want to be aware of when it comes to it. (more…)

Car accident cases are particularly challenging for both parties involved. However, it is incredibly difficult for the victim, especially if he/she has had to endure some dramatic injuries and is left with permanent or temporary disabilities. The last thing that victims of car accidents want to deal with is long hours of questioning on behalf of the insurance company. Based on your answers, they will process the claim all the while trying to lower the amount of compensation. (more…)

Unfortunately for everyone who has fallen victim to a personal injury accident, the procedure which follows is tedious and lengthy. You’d have to take care of extensive paperwork and a lot of documents in order to set the course of the claim. Furthermore, there are quite a lot of different application forms that you’d need to be aware of when filing for accident benefits. The following has the sole intention of examining the majority of those forms and providing you with clear insight in regard. (more…)

This is a particularly interesting topic because it’s unknown for a wide range of people who seem to be sharing the same common misconception. You have to understand that the law doesn’t provide you with a chance to enrich yourself in any way. The main intention of every single regulation in personal injury law is to compensate you for the damages that you have had to incur and not to add some additional assets to your current financial condition. This means that you are entitled to as much as you’ve spent or you’ve had to endure and that’s left to the discretion of the court or it’s settled in the insurance policy that you’ve signed. (more…)

Most people don’t realize the amount of stress that a person endures when they are forced by injuries to file for long-term disability benefits.  However, knowing that those benefits could be cut off without notice is considerably more so, especially if you are still recovering from those injuries and are unable to work.  While this could be an extremely unpleasant experience, there are certain signs that indicate the insurance company is about to cut those benefits off. (more…)