Most physicians buy medical malpractice insurance, as protection from a patient that wins a large award, after making a medical malpractice claim. Fortunately, the legal system provides doctors with an added form of protection. It is called the statute of limitations.
read more
Hey, wait, what’s that? A person’s lawsuit will probably never go to court? How can that be? Well, as any lawyer could tell you, the answer is simple: the vast majority of personal injury cases are settled out of court. There is a good chance that this may be true with your personal injury lawsuit.
read more
Sometimes the attorney for a person that has become the victim of an accident-caused injury will urge that client to refrain from rushing to file a claim. Still, it does not make sense to delay that process for a long time. During that delay, valuable documents might get lost.
read more
The law defines negligence as careless and neglectful behavior. A charge of gross negligence suggests that the defendant has managed to amplify to a marked degree the type of behavior that the law defines as simple negligence.
read more
At times, a win in court can deliver to the plaintiff a huge award. Still, there are good reasons for choosing on occasion to settle a lawsuit outside of the courtroom.
read more
Personal injury lawyers keep one fact foremost in their minds, when deciding whether or not to take on a potential client’s case. That one fact is this: If there is no proof of negligence, then there is no case.
read more
Anyone that has watched a televised scene of a trial-in-progress has heard use of the term “cross examination.” Yet some examinations take place before the trial. Each of them is part of an examination for discovery.
read more
During the typical personal injury case, the plaintiff claims that the defendant did not do what an ordinary, reasonable, prudent and cautious person would have done in the same situation. Yet not every defendant can be described as an ordinary man or woman. When that is the case, there is a different definition for Ontario’s
read more
When someone has filed a personal injury claim, the value of that claim gets based on the claimant’s medical expenses, along with the cost for repairing or replacing any damaged property.
read more
The two words compensatory damages make reference to the financial compensation that gets awarded to the victim that has filed a personal injury claim.
read more