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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, ...

What is an Injury Case?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 14, 2017

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What is an Injury Case? "When someone has been harmed in some way, and they sue the person that allegedly committed the harm."

Accident Lawyers in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 9, 2017

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Accident Lawyers in Toronto "We include our cost in the lawyer percentage. That way the client gets the benefit"

Contingency Lawyers in Toronto

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 8, 2017

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Contingency Lawyers in Toronto "We are contingency lawyers. We only get paid if you win your settlement"

What Is My Case Worth? Assessing Personal Injury Damages in Ontario

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersFebruary 6, 2017

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What Is My Case Worth? Assessing Personal Injury Damages in Ontario One of the first questions that clients often ask is: “How much is my case worth?” It’s a natural question, and one that both lawyer and client need to consider carefully before proceeding. ...

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 ...

Should Texting While Walking Be Banned?

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJanuary 23, 2017

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Should Texting While Walking Be Banned? Recently, Toronto City Councilor Frances Nunziata put forward a motion to amend the Ontario Highway Safety Act. Nunziata would like to see penalties for “distracted walkers,” whom she views as a safety issue. Nunziata’s ...

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 ...

How to Prevent Yourself from Falling on Ice

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersJanuary 11, 2017

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Winter Slip and Fall Accidents in Ontario Every winter, Sokoloff Lawyers deal with claims resulting from slip-and-fall accidents in Toronto and the GTA. In the wrong circumstances, anyone can have an accident on an icy or snowy sidewalk, but there are some steps you ...

How PTSD and Other Car Accident Injuries Change our Lives

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersDecember 14, 2016

An annoying fact of life that we all eventually face is that it’s not always a bed of roses. Bad things happen. Traumatic events act as watershed moments in our lives, cleaving us into two different people: how we were before the event and how become after it. We hear about it all ...

Long-Term Disability for Small Business Owners

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersDecember 13, 2016

You work from home. You set your own schedule, you press the snooze button a hundred times. You can take your time in the morning, not only drinking your coffee, but also tasting it. Your longest commute will be from your bedroom to your desk. Just the idea of avoiding GTA ...

How John Tory’s Six-Point Plan Could Reduce Automobile Accidents

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersDecember 9, 2016

The Blue Jays, the CN Tower, Drake, the Exhibition, Rob Ford: all things Toronto is famous for. Toronto is a proud, unique metropolis, with diverse neighbourhoods that represent Canada’s heterogeneity on a whole. It sounds like a fun place to be until you have to drive through it. ...

Hiring a Personal Injury Claim Lawyer after a Road Rage Attack

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersDecember 7, 2016

The most recent case of road rage was witnessed by drivers on Highway 401 in Toronto, when a group of motorcyclists and a vehicle began an altercation on the road. According to CTV Toronto, an object was thrown from the vehicle in the direction of the motorcyclists. From there, the ...

Interesting Factors that Cause Car Accidents and Finding a Car Injury Lawyer Who Can Help

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersNovember 28, 2016

You might find yourself in a serious car accident, clueless as to how the accident even happened in the first place. It was a beautiful summer day, you made no fatal errors, there were hardly any cars out on the road during the time of the accident, yet, it happened. As you struggle ...

Filling a Personal Injury Claim after a Workplace Accident Occurs

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersNovember 24, 2016

Toronto is a hub for jobs, like any other big city, and there is certainly construction along every major road (in the summertime especially). Recently, a worker suffered a serious injury injury after being coated in hot tar. According to CBC Toronto, the man was in a truck when the ...

The NFL, CTE, and Finding a Brain Injury Lawyer in the GTA

By Sokoloff - Personal Injury LawyersNovember 10, 2016

Recently in the media, brain injury experts have called to independently review the treatment of on-field head injuries in football. This is no surprise as FRONTLINE reported from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University, and researchers examined the brains of 165 ...

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