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Finding The Right Personal Injury Lawyer

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJanuary 4, 2022

The right personal injury lawyer can make a tremendous difference in your life. If you’ve suffered an injury, learn more about working with a personal injury lawyer. The Right Personal Injury Lawyer Often, when people are injured, they attempt to deal with their insurance ...

Spinal Cord Injury Therapies: New Treatments Show Promise

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesFebruary 12, 2021

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Spinal cord injury therapies are evolving. Learn more about the causes of SCIs and advances in treatment. Spinal Cord Injury Therapies Spinal cord injuries can be life-changing. Depending upon where a spinal injury is located, it can leave the injured person with paraplegia ...

Finding the Right Car Accident Lawyer in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesFebruary 1, 2021

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Finding the right car accident lawyer can seem overwhelming. Here are some tips to help you choose a legal firm that will fight for you. Finding the Right Car Accident Lawyer If you’ve been injured in a car accident, you probably have a lot to cope with. You may be struggling ...

Making an Insurance Claim for Post-Concussion Syndrome

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 15, 2020

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Post-Concussion Syndrome If you’ve been injured in a motor vehicle accident or a slip-and-fall, you may have sustained a concussion. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) that is caused by a blow or jolt to the head (or an impact to the body) that causes the head to ...

Winter Slip and Fall Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 5, 2020

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Winter Slip-and-Fall Accidents As soon as snow begins falling in the GTA, our hospital emergency rooms begin seeing victims of slip-and-fall accidents. Every year in Toronto, people are injured by slipping and falling on icy sidewalks or on melted snow in indoor spaces. Recently statistics ...

Hot Coffee Insurance Claims and Ontario’s SABS

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 25, 2020

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Hot Coffee Insurance Claims In the 1990s there was an infamous lawsuit involving an elderly woman who sued McDonald’s for millions of dollars because her coffee from an Albuquerque drive-through window was too hot. Comedians had a field day with the story, and there was even ...

Hire a Personal Injury Lawyer in Toronto for Product Liability Claims

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesSeptember 30, 2020

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Get to know what Product Liability Claims Entail and How Personal Injury Lawyers Can Help We expect that the companies that manufacture and sell products to Canadians are doing everything they can to ensure that they are safe. With regard to products such as pharmaceuticals, which ...

Find Out How to Start the Long Term Disability Claim Process in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesSeptember 25, 2020

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Long-Term Disability Claims in Toronto and How to Get Help 👇 If you’ve been injured and are unable to work because of your injuries, you may be eligible for long-term disability (LTD) benefits. These benefits, whether available through your employer or purchased ...

Concussion Injuries in Toronto and What to Do 👇

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesSeptember 20, 2020

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Do You Have a Concussion? Two injuries commonly caused by motor vehicle accidents are whiplash and concussion. Both of these injuries occur as a result of the head being sent forward and backward at high velocity, as happens when a car crashes into a fixed object, or when two ...

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 ...

Injury Claims | Sokoloff Lawyers in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesAugust 20, 2020

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Get the Help You Need Claiming Compensation with Experienced Settlement Lawyers When you or someone you love has been involved in an accident – life changes. Wendy Sokoloff has been practicing for over 30 years and in 2002 started her own law firm. She has only ...

Getting Compensation for Motor Vehicle Accident Injuries

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesAugust 11, 2020

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Motor vehicle injuries can result in pain and suffering, loss of income, and more. Learn more about what to do if you’ve been injured in an MVA and how personal injury law firms like Sokoloff Lawyers in Toronto can help you claim insurance benefits. Examples of the kinds of ...

Amusement Park Injuries

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJuly 10, 2020

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Amusement Park Injuries An amusement park or midway can be the perfect place for a summer outing with family or friends. Splashing down a waterslide, screaming as the roller coaster takes a wicked bend, or plummeting from a drop tower is exhilarating fun! But how safe are Canadian ...

Hiring a Toronto Personal Injury Lawyer: Young Drivers, Accidents, and Car Accident Settlements

By Lily DanielsArticlesJune 19, 2020

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As soon as you turn sixteen-years-old, it’s off to the races to get your driver’s license. You’ve had little to no driving experience, except in the dungy parking lot at your grandparent’s house, but you feel like a pro. After a few driving lessons with a strict ...

Dog Bite Lawyers in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJune 13, 2020

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There are approximately four million dogs in Canada, and dog bites constitute a complex health problem, with more than 500,000 incidents of dog attacks every year. Injuries can range in severity and may require recovery time. Learn more about how personal injury lawyers can ...

Wrongful Death Claims and Hiring a Personal Injury Lawyer

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 21, 2020

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Wrongful Death Claims Some of the most difficult cases that personal injury lawyers encounter are those involving wrongful death. “Wrongful death” refers to a death that occurs due to a fatal accident or injury that ...

Personal Injury Lawyers in Toronto, Ontario.

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersDecember 16, 2019

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Personal Injury Lawyers You are probably familiar with the names of a few personal injury law firms. In fact, if you watch television, you may even have a catchy jingle or two from personal injury law commercials running through your head! Unfortunately, many people may have ...

The Dangers of Distracted Driving

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersSeptember 11, 2018

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The Dangers of Distracted Driving Today’s drivers have many distractions to deal with: other passengers, GPS navigation devices, music devices, food and drink, smoking, outside objects or events, and much more. Believe it or not, daydreaming is one of the top distractions ...

Public Transit Accidents in the GTA

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersSeptember 6, 2018

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Public Transit Accidents in the GTA Have you been injured on our public transit? Many Torontonians don’t realize that there is a way to file a claim against an entity such as the Toronto Transit Commission, but in fact, hundreds of claims are made each year. In 2017 alone, ...

Avoiding Wildlife Collisions

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersAugust 30, 2018

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Avoid Wildlife Collisions In Canada, winter driving can be treacherous. Ice, snow, and reduced visibility can turn a routine trip into a tragedy. But don’t forget that even after all the snow has melted, Canadian highways can be dangerous. In the spring, summer, and fall, ...

Water Safety

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersAugust 22, 2018

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Water Safety We dream about summertime during long, cold Canadian winters, and many of us arrange our summers so that we can have fun in the sun by a lake, a pool, or a river. However, sometimes tragedy strikes in summer; according to the Lifesaving Society of Canada, 65% ...

Drive Safe in Wet Spring Weather: Tips for Driving in the Rain

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 25, 2018

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Tips for Driving in the Rain Rain, rain go away; come again another day. The playground chant may come to mind on spring mornings as you look out the window at a few droplets, a steady drizzle, or a torrential downpour. But although we usually remember to take an umbrella or a raincoat, ...

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 ...

Answering Your Questions About Medical Marijuana in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 19, 2018

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Medical Marijuana in Ontario As medical marijuana gains popularity as a treatment for injuries, diseases, and chronic conditions, Ontarians have questions about how it is prescribed, obtained, and whether or not it will be covered under their insurance plans. Although rules ...

Is It Time Yet? When to Change Your Tires

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 14, 2018

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Is Now the Time to Change My Tires? In recent years it’s been more and more difficult for Ontarians to know when, exactly, they should remove their winter tires (or “snow tires” if you prefer the old-school term.) Early spring in the province has always been ...

Can You Make a Claim If You’re Injured on Private Property?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 12, 2018

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What Should I Do If I Am Injured on Private Property? Every year people sustain injuries while they walking along the sidewalk, while they are in stores, restaurants, or other places of business, or while they are in other peoples’ homes or yards. If this has happened to you, ...

Accessing Home Healthcare in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 7, 2018

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Home Healthcare For the past two decades, Ontario has been moving basic healthcare needs away from hospitals and has been placing an emphasis on providing homecare. The basic idea is sound: that people will be able to access care while remaining in their own homes, where they will ...

Personal Injury Lawyers Can Help You Make an Insurance Claim for ATV and Dirtbike Injuries

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 5, 2018

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ATV and Dirtbike Injuries Many Ontario families own All-Terrain Vehicles. These recreational vehicles are meant to be ridden both on and off-road, and they’re built for adventure! The four-wheeled variety, also known as “quads,” “dune buggies” ...

Safety Tips to Prevent Fireworks Injuries

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 1, 2018

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Firework Injuries People often buy fireworks in order to do something fun to celebrate a holiday or birthday. But if someone at the party is injured by fireworks, the celebration turns into a tragedy. Approximately two hundred adults and children in Canada are injured by fireworks ...

Personal Injury Lawyers - Helping Those in Need

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 30, 2017

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Personal Injury Lawyers - Helping Those in Need Personal Injury Lawyers offer guidance, advice and help when you need it the most - after an accident. Not only do they offer legal representation and experience, they also help you find the right course to recovery. ...

Personal Injury Law System in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersApril 12, 2017

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Personal Injury Law System in Ontario The Law has become very difficult for personal injury, especially in Ontario. Get the help and information you need to navigate the system! Remember, Don't Put it Off, Call Sokoloff!

Did You Know That You Only Have 10 Days to Report a Fall on City Property?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersApril 5, 2017

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Sokoloff Lawyers - Wendy's Daily Tips Did you know that you only have 10 days to report a fall on city property? Don't Put it Off, Call Sokoloff!

What to Expect from Your Personal Injury Lawyer

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersMarch 3, 2017