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Finding The Right Personal Injury Lawyer

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJanuary 4, 20220 comments

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 ...

Life After Amputation

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesAugust 3, 20211 comments

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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 ...

Snowmobile Safety Tips

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJanuary 12, 20210 comments

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Snowmobile Safety Ontarians love snowmobiling! We have over 30,000 km (18,641 mi.) of interconnected trails, one of the longest networks of recreational trails in the world, through some of the most beautiful landscape anywhere. These trails are maintained by the very active umbrella ...

Driving Safety Tips Help Prevent Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 30, 20200 comments

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Driving Safety Tips In Ontario last year, more than 62,000 drivers were involved in motor vehicle accidents causing personal injury or fatality. Many of these accidents were caused by driver error or unsafe driving practices. Experts recommend being aware of your own driving style ...

Stresses of COVID-19 May Affect PTSD Victims Adversely

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 25, 20200 comments

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COVID-19 May Affect PTSD Victims Do you have PTSD as a result of a motor vehicle accident? A recent article in the British medical journal the Lancet discusses some of the effects the COVID-19 pandemic has had on people who suffer from mental health challenges such as PTSD. ...

What to Do After an Accident

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 20, 20200 comments

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After an Accident Happens Canadians have a reputation for being overly apologetic. In fact, it’s been shown that citizens of the Great White North will often apologize even when the person they’re talking to is clearly in the wrong. Did the Tim Hortons server get your ...

Making an Insurance Claim for Post-Concussion Syndrome

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 15, 20200 comments

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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 ...

The Dangers of Cannabis-Impaired Driving

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 10, 20200 comments

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Cannabis-Impaired Driving Two recent surveys from the Canadian Automobile Association contain some alarming statistics about drivers and cannabis use. The surveys found that: One in five younger Canadians say they have driven high or have travelled in a vehicle with a high ...

Winter Slip and Fall Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 5, 20200 comments

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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 ...

E-Scooters in Toronto, Should They be Allowed?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesDecember 1, 20200 comments

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E-Scooters on GTA Streets On January 1 of 2020, the Ontario government launched a five-year pilot project for electric kick scooters, allowing them on city streets in the province (subject to municipal regulations). Ottawa, for example, has given the green light to a city-wide e-scooter ...

Communication Is Key When Meeting with a Personal Injury Lawyer in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 30, 20200 comments

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Meeting with a Personal Injury Lawyer Did you know that the initial meeting with a personal injury lawyer in Ontario is almost always free? If you’ve been injured in an accident, don’t hesitate: contact a personal injury law firm today, and learn more about your options. ...

Hot Coffee Insurance Claims and Ontario’s SABS

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 25, 20200 comments

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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 ...

Social Host Liability Claims

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 20, 20200 comments

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Social Host Liability Claims In 2006, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled in Childs v Desormeaux, a case involving social host liability. On January 1, 1999, after leaving a private party in Ottawa, hosted by Julie Zimmerman and Dwight Courrier, Desmond Desormeaux drove ...

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Personal Injury Law in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 15, 20200 comments

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Personal Injury Law The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of our lives, with effects felt in nearly every corner of the globe. In Canada, children’s schooling has been interrupted, forced to comply with social distancing measures, or ...

Distracted Walking: Pedestrian Injuries and Cellphones

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 10, 20200 comments

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Pedestrian Injuries and Cellphones Last year, 42 pedestrians were killed on Toronto streets, despite the launch of Mayor Tory’s “Vision Zero 2.0,” a revamping of this program designed to reduce pedestrian and cycling fatalities in our city. On average, six ...

Taking Legal Action in the Case of Car Accidents Involving Family Members

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesNovember 5, 20200 comments

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Car Accidents Involving Family Members When accident victims are dealing with a serious injury related to a motor vehicle accident, they may be experiencing pain, depression, PTSD, financial strain, and personal stresses, all while trying to recover and adjust to a “new normal.” ...

Meeting with a Personal Injury Lawyer in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesOctober 27, 20200 comments

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Meeting with a Personal Injury Lawyer Jerry Seinfeld once said, “To me, a lawyer is basically the person that knows the rules of the country. We're all throwing the dice, playing the game, moving our pieces around the board, but if there is a problem the lawyer is the only person ...

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