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Adam R. Little

As a partner at Oatley, Vigmond, Adam believes that achieving exceptional results in personal injury claims requires creativity, dedication, perseverance and hard work. He strives to apply those qualities on behalf of all his clients. Since his call to the Bar in 2002, Adam has dedicated his practice to obtaining compensation for motor vehicle accidents, medical negligence, occupiers liability claims and other insurance disputes.

Prior to joining Oatley, Vigmond in 2005, Adam practiced with a leading Toronto litigation firm, where he defended physicians in malpractice claims and regulatory matters. While representing physicians, Adam gained valuable insight, experience and understanding into the unique way in which Canadian doctors are defended by their protective association. Adam now applies that insight, experience and understanding on behalf those injured at the hands of physicians.

A graduate of the Queen's University Faculty of Law (2000) and the University of Toronto (1996), Adam is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, a co-editor/author of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association's bi-monthly legal update publication OTLA Notes, and co-author of the chapters dealing with "Catastrophic Impairment" in the well-known Oatley, McLeish Guide to Personal Injury Practice in Motor Vehicle Cases. Adam also serves as vice-president on the executive board of the Simcoe County Law Association.

Recent Notable Cases

While acting on behalf of a young man killed in a tobogganing accident, Adam recently won a significant decision at the Ontario Court of Appeal. In Heaslip Estate v. Mansfield Ski Club Inc. Ontario's highest court reinstated a lawsuit against the Province alleging that its air ambulance service failed to prioritize a patient's urgent medical transfer, resulting in his death. This decision was a marked departure from the previous rulings of Ontario's courts, most of which had struck out claims against the Province made by injured persons.

In 2008, Adam obtained a new trial for an injured man after the insurance lawyer at his first trial made anti-immigrant remarks to the jury in his closing address. The case, called Abdallah v. Snopek , was the first decision to deal directly with statements in a jury address which raised issues of prejudice and discrimination based on citizenship, nationality or racial origin.

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