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Traumatic Facial Disfigurement

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesAugust 3, 2019

Coping with Traumatic Facial Disfigurement Personal injury lawyers deal with all kinds of cases, including serious accidents causing debilitating brain or spinal injuries. But cases involving disfigurement can be almost as complex as those dealing with more severe injuries. ...

Dealing with Whiplash Injuries

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJuly 31, 2019

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Dealing with Whiplash Injuries One of the most common injuries suffered by people involved in motor vehicle accidents is whiplash. Because it happens so frequently, whiplash often doesn’t get the consideration it deserves. In fact, whiplash injuries can be serious and ...

Amputation Injury Help in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesJuly 22, 2019

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Amputation Injuries Each year many Ontario residents are involved in accidents that cause them to lose a limb. The most common accidents are related to motor vehicles or motorcycles, but construction site accidents, falls from heights, and product defects can also be responsible ...

Wrongful Death Claims

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJuly 16, 2019

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Wrongful Death Claims Losing a family member under any circumstances is heartbreaking. But losing a loved one suddenly due to an accident is also shocking and traumatic. Sadly, nothing will bring a dear family member back to us. However, the law recognizes that the family of ...

What To Do When You Have No Insurance?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJuly 11, 2019

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When You Have No Insurance If you are involved in an motor vehicle accident involving injury or property damage, you are required to report it to your insurance company within seven days, no matter who was at fault. As outlined by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, ...

When the Homemaker Is Injured

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJuly 2, 2019

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When the Homemaker Is Injured When you have been injured, receiving money can never really compensate for the pain you’ve suffered and the experiences you’ve lost, but it can often help to make your family’s life more comfortable. In most personal injury cases, ...

What is a structured settlement? Learn more about this long-term method of awarding damages to a plaintiff in a personal injury case.

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 28, 2019

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What Is a Structured Settlement? You may have heard the term “structured settlement” and wondered about what it is and how it works. Basically, a structured settlement is a payment that goes to the successful party in a personal injury lawsuit, but rather than paying out ...

Toronto’s Multi-Ethnic Law Firms

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 24, 2019

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Toronto’s Multi-Ethnic Law Firms According to BBC Radio, Toronto is the most multicultural city in the world. With almost half of the population of the city born in another country, more than half identifying as “visible minorities,” and with as many ...

Spinal Cord Injuries and Personal Injury Cases

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 18, 2019

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Spinal Cord Injuries Injuries to the spinal cord can be devastating. In Canada, more than 86,000 people live with spinal cord injuries, and each year 4,300 new spinal cord injuries occur. If you or a family member has recently suffered a spinal cord injury, life as you know ...

Filing Insurance Claims for Psychological Injuries

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 12, 2019

Insurance Claims for Psychological Injuries A 1988 B.C. Supreme Court judgment may have determined there is no “logical difference between a scar on the flesh and a scar on the mind,” and in recent years, the number of lawsuits involving psychological injuries ...

Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJune 3, 2019

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Coping with Traumatic Brain Injury Did you know that brain injuries are very common in Canada? Brain injury is, in fact, the leading cause of death and disability for Canadians under 40, and 1.5 million people in our country live with it. The annual incidence of brain injury ...

Worst Roads In Ontario and how they contribute to accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersMay 27, 2019

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Worst Roads in Ontario Every year, the Canadian Automobile Association publishes a list of the most dangerous roads in Ontario. Drivers are asked to nominate and then vote on which roads are in the worst shape. These “dangerous roads” often include major roadways ...

Travel safety tips can help to keep you happy and healthy while on vacation. Learn more about travelling safely.

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersMay 21, 2019

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Travel Safety and What To Do In the bleak mid-winter, more than three million Canadians carve out some time for a tropical vacation. Whether you’re booked for a week in Jamaica, two weeks on the Yucatan Peninsula, or a long weekend in Turks and Caicos, you’ll be ...

Claiming Negligence in Ski Resort Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersMay 14, 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 ...

Safe Winter Driving Tips

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersArticlesMay 6, 2019

Safe Winter Driving Most Canadians have experience driving in snow and ice, and even through blizzards. But even the most expert winter drivers should learn new techniques and brush up on tried-and-true ones once in a while. And if you’re a novice driver, knowing some ...

Future Care Costs for Disabled Family

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersApril 29, 2019

Future Care Costs If you or a loved one has been seriously injured in an accident, your family may be entitled to make a claim for future care costs. This type of claim can be made if it can be foreseen that the injured person may continue to need care on a long-term basis. ...

Long-term disability benefits help workers who have been injured or who are seriously ill.

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersApril 22, 2019

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Long-Term Disability Benefits You may need time off work due to an accident, an illness, or an injury. If so, long-term disability benefits may pay you a percentage (usually 60 – 70%) of your monthly income. There are many different types of long-term disability (or LTD) ...

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