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Night Driving Tips

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJune 1, 2022

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Night Driving Tips Driving at night is more dangerous than driving during the day. This knowledge makes many of us apprehensive about night driving; some even avoid it altogether. Nevertheless, most drivers will need to drive at night at least occasionally. How can you feel ...

Contaminated Food Products

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJanuary 20, 2022

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Contaminated food products can cause distress for consumers. Learn more about what to do if you have been injured due to a foreign object in your food. Contaminated Food Products We’ve all heard horror stories about people finding foreign objects in food products. ...

What is Lawyer Client Privilege?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 26, 2021

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Lawyer-client privilege is there to protect clients and to encourage frank disclosure of the facts. Learn more about this legal principle. Lawyer-Client Privilege In Hollywood legal thrillers, the concept of lawyer-client privilege is often used as a plot point: the ...

How the Pandemic Is Changing the Legal Profession: the COVID-19 Effect

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesOctober 25, 2021

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How the pandemic is changing the legal profession: learn more about the impact of COVID on Ontario lawyers. COVID-19 swept us into a world where we had to find different ways to do almost everything. Kids went to school via Zoom. We worked from home. Merchants left our orders ...

Long-Term Care and COVID-19

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesSeptember 10, 2021

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Long-Term Care Homes and COVID-19 The past year and a half have been difficult for all of us, but for those who have lost loved ones, the pandemic has been devastating. In Canada, the toll has been particularly high for seniors living in long-term care homes and nursing homes. Approximately ...

Life After Amputation

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesAugust 3, 2021

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Life After Amputation Amputation is one of the oldest known surgical treatments, with records of the operation dating back to ancient times. An amputation is performed in cases when an injured or diseased limb is not expected to heal, and the patient's life is endangered ...

Waterskiing Risks

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJuly 30, 2021

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Waterskiing risks can be mitigated by close attention to safety rules and regulations. Learn more about how to waterski safely. Waterskiing Risks The warm days of summer often bring opportunities for fun at the lake. Swimming, boating, paddle boarding, and waterskiing are ...

Summer Safety Tips for Your Family

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 30, 2021

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In Canada, summer brings outdoor fun, family time, and relaxation. Many of us will get the chance to go camping, swimming, fishing, hiking, golfing, biking or boating. Others will spend time in the backyard gardening, or simply soaking up the sun on a lounger. Whatever your summer ...

Boating safety tips: Staying Safe on the Water

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 20, 2021

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Boating Safety Tips Boats, like motorcycles, ATVs, and other recreational vehicles, provides Canadians with hours of exciting and fun recreation. In fact, millions of us will have at least one boat ride this summer! Whether you like to take your boat out to a quiet spot to ...

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 ...

Fire Safety at the Cottage

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 1, 2021

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Fire Safety at the Cottage As the weather gets warmer, Ontarians’ thoughts turn to cottage country. Whether you own your own place or plan to Airbnb this summer, it’s important to remember that fire safety is important at the cottage, too. We tend to relax once ...

Tick Tips for Summer

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesApril 30, 2021

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Tick Tips Summer weather in Canada brings opportunities for camping, spending time at the cottage, hiking, biking, golfing, and many other excellent outdoor activities. However, it’s important to remember that warmer weather also means tick weather. These miniature pests ...

Cycle Safety: Making your Bike Road Ready

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesApril 20, 2021

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Many Canadians have been waiting for spring sunshine to get their beloved bicycles back on the road. Cycling can be a wonderful way to enjoy the world around you as you make your way across the city or go on a recreational country ride. Riding your bike is a great way to get exercise ...

Child Safety Tips: Preventing Forgotten Baby Syndrome

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesApril 15, 2021

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Child Safety Tips: Preventing Forgotten Baby Syndrome Every time we hear the story, we are shocked all over again: somehow a parent has forgotten a baby or young child in a car on a hot day, and the child has died of hyperthermia. Each year in the US, approximately 40 children ...

Coping with Post Concussion Syndrome

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesApril 2, 2021

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Post-Concussion Syndrome If you’ve ever suffered a concussion, you’ll know that a traumatic brain injury can be debilitating. While most people recover relatively well from concussion injuries, there are some cases when symptoms linger on for a year or more, significantly ...

Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: What to Expect

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersMarch 30, 2021

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Has a member of your family been diagnosed with a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)? A traumatic brain injury occurs when an outside force -- such as a fall, an assault, or a motor vehicle crash -- disrupts the brain’s normal function. If your loved one has suffered a severe ...

Long COVID Patients and Long-Term Disability Insurance

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersMarch 25, 2021

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Long COVID Patients and Long-Term Disability Insurance As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause chaos around the globe, the number of those who have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus has exceeded 130 million. Fortunately, most people who have had COVID-19 have recovered from ...