This webinar will update you on how lawyers and health care providers are coping with the evolving challenges of working in the constantly changing auto insurance system. You will learn strategies that will benefit you and your clients, including:

• Establishing “incurred expense” and “economic loss” in attendant care claims.
• Recent developments in catastrophic impairment.
• Common pitfalls in clinical note taking and report writing.
• Preparing for giving evidence in the Courtroom.

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Social condemnation aside, most people are not aware of the consequences of drinking
and driving on a boat. Click here to see what Brian Cameron has to say on the topic.

Obviously no one can sue a deer or a moose for causing the accident. However, a driver injured by a moose or deer can still access statutory accident benefits from his or her own auto insurance policy. Ontario’s Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule provides anyone who has been seriously injured in a motor vehicle collision with medical and rehabilitation benefits, attendant care benefits, income replacement benefits and non-earner benefits.

If you have been injured after a collision with a deer, a moose or some other large wild animal you should contact an experienced personal injury lawyer to assist you with your claim.

There is similar technology in modern motor vehicles.   Your car records data including speed, RPM and braking rates.   This data is recorded by a device that operates the air bags in the vehicle.   In many cases, it can be downloaded after a collision and used to determine how fast a vehicle was being driven or whether brakes were applied before a collision.

As with airplane crashes, this electronic data is often crucial in determining what went wrong and who is at fault for a motor vehicle collision   It is important that this data be retrieved quickly following a collision because it will disappear with time.

This is one of the reasons why it is important to promptly retain an experienced personal injury lawyer if you or a family member is seriously injured in a motor vehicle collision.   Experienced personal injury lawyers will hire engineers to obtain and preserve the electronic data contained within the vehicles involved in the collision.  Very often, this data is the most important piece of evidence in a case.

While helmets may not prevent concussion, they are an effective piece of safety equipment when participating in sports that take place on hard surfaces.  Helmets can prevent skull fractures and other serious forms of head injury when worn in sports such as skiing, snowboarding, cycling, motor, off-road and equestrian sports.  Their effectiveness is lessened when the helmet has been improperly fitted, worn too loosely, kept for too long, or even worn after already being exposed to a heavy blow.

Parents need to use caution when considering the type and design of helmets chosen for children.  A helmet is not something that a child should be expected to grow into.  Additionally, helmet covers that add Mohawks, devil horns, or animal ears and tails can change the design characteristics in ways that lessen the helmet’s effectiveness.  Studies have also shown that helmets that do not slide smoothly against a surface can expose users to injuries by increasing forces against the head and neck.  The inability for a helmet to slide smoothly can also create enough friction between surfaces to pull open a helmets chinstrap exposing the head to greater injury.

Helmets are effective at lessening the blow from an impact with a hard surface when they are used and worn as the manufacturer intended.  Unfortunately, head injuries will still occur across all sports and hobbies, whether or not they are played at an elite level.  If you, or someone you know, has suffered a head injury because of a sporting or other accident it is important to speak to an experienced personal injury lawyer who can advise you on your legal rights.

“Roger Oatley, a past Advocates’ Society president, founded the firm in 1974 after spending two years as a defence lawyer. Jim Vigmond, a former president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, joined in 1993, and in 2002 the pair focused in on a specialized plaintiffs’ practice. There are 13 lawyers and around 80 other staff at the firm, which, apart from its head office in Barrie, has consultation offices dotted throughout the province in Toronto, Hamilton, North Bay, and Sudbury. Oatley pioneered “the science of what makes a jury or judge tick, and has taken it further than anyone else,” said one voter who credits the firm with setting the model for the prosecution of large catastrophic claims.” -Canadian Lawyer Magazine

Thank you to Canadian Lawyer for again bestowing Oatley, Vigmond with this prestigious honour. We also congratulate our Personal Injury Alliance partners – Thomson Rogers and McLeish, Orlando – on their inclusion in the Top 10.

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The advantage of AD&D insurance is that it is generally less expensive than life insurance. The disadvantages of AD&D insurance are that it is not an investment like a whole life insurance policy and that there are often numerous exclusions contained in the policy. These exclusions often include no requirement to pay if a death occurs due to suicide, alcohol or drug abuse, illness, war, radiation or natural causes. Given the exclusions, insurance companies often delay paying out on AD&D death claims until an autopsy and investigation of the death has occurred.

If you have an AD&D claim that has been denied, it is important to speak to an experienced personal injury lawyer who can advise you on your legal rights.

In this amazing and inspirational story, Carolyn Pioro, a web intern at Chatelaine and spinal cord injury survivor, recounts her journey through her devastating accident and reconstructing her life as a quadriplegic.

In this article, Carolyn provides details of her accident and the struggles she faced in the months that followed, but she also paints us a picture of what her life was like before the accident and how she has adjusted and navigates through life at present day.

Read Article: http://www.chatelaine.com/living/carolyn-pioro-on-life-after-a-devastating-spinal-cord-accident/

Post-traumatic emotional problems can affect all aspects of a person’s life including problems with concentration, emotional control, maintaining relationships and work life. Things as basic as sleeping, eating, and driving can be negatively impacted by post-traumatic emotional problems.

In Ontario, Statutory Accident Benefits can help heal emotional trauma by offering coverage for psychological or social work counseling for someone injured in a motor vehicle accident. Family members of motor vehicle accident survivors may also feel overwhelmed and overburdened. Fortunately, immediate family members such as spouses, grandparents, parents and siblings of an injured party can also access counseling through their statutory accident benefits policy. If travel and transportation is a concern, many counselors such as social workers, psychotherapists, and psychologists will come to your home. If you or your family member is suffering emotionally after a motor vehicle accident, do not delay in seeking treatment. You owe it to yourself, your family, and your friends to start down the road to recovery.