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Motorcycle Accidents on the Rise

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersSeptember 1, 2021

Motorcycle Accidents on the Rise 2020 marked one of the worst years in decades for motorcycle fatalities in Ontario: 42 motorcyclists were killed on OPP-patrolled roads. Most of these accidents involved a single vehicle, and nearly half involved drivers over the age of 50. ...

Amusement Park Accidents: What You Should Know

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 10, 2021

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Amusement Park Accidents If you’ve ever taken a ride on a roller coaster, zipped down a zipline, seen the skyline from a ferris wheel, careened down a water slide, taken a spin on a merry-go-round, bumped bumpers in a bumper car, or bounced on a bungee, you know the unique ...

Elevator Accidents on the Rise

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesFebruary 21, 2021

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Elevator Accidents on the Rise in Ontario How many elevator rides have you taken this week? This month? This year? Elevators are so much a part of our urban lives that we would probably have difficulty answering the questions. We rarely think twice about jumping on an elevator, ...

How Personal Injury Lawyers can Help After a Hit-and-Run Injury

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesSeptember 17, 2020

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Hit-and-Run Accidents Recently, a cyclist in Markham and a 17-year-old pedestrian in North York died when struck by drivers who then left the accident scene. Fleeing the scene of an accident is, sadly, not uncommon. In Oshawa in 2019, as a cyclist lay dying in the road, not ...

Public Transportation Accidents in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 10, 2020

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Getting Help After a Public Transportation Accident in Toronto With a population of 2.8 million and growing, the city of Toronto is a dynamic and bustling metropolis. According to the Toronto Transit Commission, daily ridership now tops 1.69 million. With numbers ...

Truck Accidents Suffered at the Workplace

By SpringApril 13, 2020

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Truck related accident injuries may be especially likely to happen at the workplace, particularly industrial or construction work accidents, where trucks are commonplace. Suffering an accident at the workplace can be more complicated than regular road accidents for a number of reasons. As ...

The Insurance Claims Process

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesFebruary 27, 2020

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The Insurance Claims Process If you’ve been injured in a motor vehicle accident in Ontario, you will need to make an insurance claim. Generally, you will make a claim to your own insurance company. If you are uninsured, you can make a claim to the insurance company of ...

Who is Liable in a Transport Truck Accident

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesFebruary 25, 2020

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Last year’s horrific accident that claimed the lives of several members of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team has provoked a number of questions about long-haul trucks, and the enforcement of laws governing these vehicles. The crash, which happened in April of 2018 on a road near ...

Snowmobile Accidents in Canada

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJanuary 28, 2020

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Snowmobile Accidents in Canada Canadians are enthusiasts when it comes to winter activities. Along with hockey, we take advantage of our wintry weather to participate in leisure activities such as skiing, skating, curling, tobogganing, and snowmobiling. The first modern snowmobile, ...

Personal Injury Lawyers Can Help with School Bus Accident Settlements

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 4, 2019

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School Bus Accidents are More Common than You Think A recent Ontario Court of Appeals ruling held that a bus company must pay a $7 million award to a 13-year-old girl who suffered brain damage when she leapt out the emergency exit of her school bus on the day she graduated from Grade ...

Children Injured in Motor Vehicle Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersNovember 8, 2019

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Children Injured in Motor Vehicle Accidents Each year in Canada, 2,000 people are killed and 10,000 are seriously injured in traffic collisions. Sadly, many children are reflected in those statistics. Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death and hospitalization ...

Pedestrian Accidents in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesApril 2, 2019

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Drivers in Toronto are notorious for bad driving habits, and are often cited as the worst drivers in Canada. Pedestrian Accidents in Toronto Before the first month of 2019 was over, six pedestrians had died on Toronto streets, putting us on track for one of the ...

Public Transit Accidents in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMarch 20, 2019

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Public Transit Accidents Nearly 40% of commuters in Toronto take public transit to and from work each day, according to 2016 long form census data, and this percentage may rise as the transit system expands. With so many passengers travelling daily and the sheer number of vehicles ...

Ski Resort Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 20, 2019

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Ski Resort Accidents This winter, thousands of Canadian skiers will hit the slopes for fun in the snow. There are over three hundred ski resorts in Canada, with an estimated 4.3 million visitors annually. For the vast majority of these skiers, all that they’ll take home ...

Motor Vehicle Accidents: Losing a Limb

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersNovember 12, 2018

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Motor Vehicle Accidents: Losing a Limb The main cause of hospitalization for Canadians between the ages of fifteen and thirty-four is motor vehicle accidents. And although deaths and injuries have been trending downward in recent years, automobile accidents still cause ...

In the Zone: Preventing Road Construction Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 21, 2018

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Road Construction Accidents As the joke goes, Canada has two seasons: winter, and road construction. But road construction accidents are no laughing matter. Now that spring has finally arrived in Canada, it’s good to remember that there will be an increase in the number ...

ATV Accidents in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersApril 14, 2017

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ATV Accidents in Ontario Many families in rural and northern Ontario have All-Terrain Vehicles, sometimes referred to as “Four-Wheelers” or “Quads,” or known simply by the abbreviation “ATVs.” These low, open motorized vehicles have ...

Preventing Bicycle Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 24, 2017

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Preventing Bicycle Accidents Last summer saw a rise in motor vehicle-bicycle collisions. According to statistics from Toronto police, 541 bicyclists were hit by cars between June 1st and the third week of September in 2016. Shockingly, this adds up to almost five car-bicycle ...

Get a Grip: Avoiding Slip and Fall Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 14, 2017

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Get a Grip: Avoiding Slip and Fall Accidents In Canada, winter is long, cold, snowy, and icy! However, we Canucks tend to pride ourselves on our ability to withstand the winter weather. We wear fleecy long johns, woolen socks and big puffy parkas. And of course, ...

Pedestrian Accidents on the Rise in Toronto and the GTA

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJanuary 30, 2017

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Pedestrian Accidents on the Rise in Toronto and the GTA The Globe & Mail recently reported that the number of pedestrian accidents in Toronto and the GTA has reached new levels. On average this year, a pedestrian was struck by a car once every four hours. Pedestrian deaths ...

Snowmobile Accidents in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJanuary 16, 2017

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Snowmobile Accidents in Ontario It was a Canadian, Joseph-Armande Bombardier, who perfected the design of the modern snowmobile, with his 1922 “Ski-Doo” design, and ever since, Canadians have had a love affair with the sport of snowmobiling. The snowmobile is the ...

Winter Slip and Fall Accidents in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJanuary 12, 2017

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Winter Slip and Fall Accidents in Ontario In Canada, many of us enjoy winter sports and relish the sight of a landscape covered in sparkling new snow. However, Canadian winters can also be hazardous. It’s estimated that 12% of motor vehicle accident injuries and ...