Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish will co-chair the annual Law Society program outlining the latest developments and recommended practices in personal injury motor vehicle litigation. On March 31 and April 1, presenters will review the leading cases in tort and accident benefits from the past year, and set out the significant changes to the accident benefits […]
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Organizations offering athletic activities to children and teenagers should take reasonable steps to ensure policies are in place and staff are trained to mitigate the risk of injury, says Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando. “There has to be a recognition that sporting activities bear a certain amount of risk, so care and attention ought to
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Jurors have become increasingly skeptical of plaintiffs in personal injury cases – but there are ways for lawyers to be successful, Toronto critical injury lawyers John McLeish and Lindsay Charles write in Lawyers Weekly. One of the juror beliefs is that the only reason plaintiffs in personal injury cases sue is to get as much money as possible,
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A guilty verdict for three people who ran an overcrowded daycare where a two-year-old girl died in 2013 is welcome, but it comes too late, Toronto lawyer Patrick Brown tells the Toronto Star. “Although the operators were found guilty, this type of prosecution should have been brought by the Ministry of Education well before Eva died,” says Brown,
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The lack of costs awards at the Licence Appeals Tribunal (LAT) may scare some injured individuals from fully pursuing deserving claims, says Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish. McLeish, a partner with McLeish Orlando LLP, says his firm recently commissioned an expert opinion for a client whose insurer had terminated his income replacement benefits. The report costs
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If a driver who was sentenced to 15 weekends in jail for leaving the scene after striking and killing cyclist Tom Samson had instead remained until authorities determined the circumstances, he likely would have only received a small fine, Toronto personal injury lawyer Patrick Brown tells Catherine Porter at the Toronto Star. The article states that despite an
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McLeish Orlando LLP has again been named a top personal injury boutique by Canadian Lawyer magazine. In its annual survey of top firms, Canadian Lawyer said voters felt McLeish Orlando’s “great legal team” and “great results” should earn them a spot on the list. “In 2009, the firm made history by obtaining the single highest personal injury judgment in Canada
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The Ontario government’s move to introduce Canada’s first concussion legislation for young athletes in the wake of a teenage rugby player’s death, is a positive step toward how such injuries are handled by parents, teachers and coaches, says Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish. “It is long overdue,” McLeish says. “There are various organizations and schools
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In spite of positive developments to fight auto insurance fraud in Ontario, some “bad apples” remain unregulated, resulting in the wrongful denial of millions of dollars to legitimately injured claimants, Toronto critical injury lawyer Patrick Brown writes in Lawyers Weekly. “Insurance medical assessment clinics have existed for decades. They offer insurance companies one-stop shopping for reports. An insurer
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Corporations can take some comfort from the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision on investor class action lawsuits that the protections built into the Securities Act for them are going to be strictly upheld by the courts, Toronto class-action lawyer Margaret Waddell tells Lawyers Weekly. Earlier this month, the top court ruled in Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v.
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