Dashboard cameras may be the “silent witness” the TTC needs to ensure its drivers are held accountable for their actions, says Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish. The onboard cameras, called dashcams, are being considered by the transit authority as conversations continue over safety on the TTC after the death of Amaria Diljohn, a 14-year-old killed […]
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Toronto critical injury lawyers John McLeish and Salvatore Shaw will present a workshop on techniques for report writing and charting at the 2015 Traumatic Brain Injury Conference on Jan. 30. In the 2 – 3 p.m. session, aimed at health-care practitioners who contend with traumatic brain injury in their practice, McLeish and Shaw, partners with McLeish Orlando LLP, will discuss the
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Toronto critical injury lawyers John McLeish, Patrick Brown, Rikin Morzaria and Alison Burrison are scheduled to participate in an upcoming event targeting experts, health care professionals and those who may be called upon to testify in cases in their respective fields. The lawyers, partners with McLeish Orlando LLP, will speak on a variety of topics at the one-day conference, called Practical Strategies
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When it comes to ensuring the safety of cyclists on country roads, both drivers and those on bikes have to take responsibility for their actions – or the impact can be devastating, Toronto critical injury lawyer Patrick Brown tells 99.5 Moose FM in Bracebridge. “We see far too many cases of cyclists either being severely injured or killed
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The amount of compensation an injured person or their family will receive in the wake of a cycling accident will depend in part on whether the cyclist was following the rules of the road, Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando says on Moose FM 103.3. On the recent broadcast, Orlando, partner with McLeish Orlando LLP, discusses cycling and cycling
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Although juries are understood to be the “great equalizers” and the community’s guide to what is just, to those peering in it appears that the appellate courts are acting as gatekeepers and have little difficulty reducing high awards in personal injury claims regardless of what the jury finds, Toronto critical injury lawyer Patrick Brown writes in The Lawyer’s
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A $2.2 million lawsuit alleging negligence has been filed against a York Region police officer and the police service that employs him after the death of an 18-year-old female pedestrian, says Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish, partner with McLeish Orlando LLP. In February, Natasha Carla Abogado was crossing St. Clair Ave. E., west of Warden Avenue.
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An Ontario ombudsman investigation into unlicensed daycares has found lax rules that were “barely being enforced” in a system with legal loopholes. The investigation was launched following the death of a two-year-old girl at a home daycare in Vaughan, Ont., north of Toronto last year. Ombudsman Andre Marin says Eva Ravikovich was one of four children
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Toronto critical injury lawyers John McLeish, Dale Orlando and Patrick Brown recently accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. McLeish, Orlando and Brown are all past presidents of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. They were nominated for the challenge by Jim Vigmond, also a past president of OTLA. The trio did not take the challenge lightly. They dressed in business suits,
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Every year, thousands of cyclists across Ontario are injured in collisions with motor vehicles – but cottage country roads can prove particularly dangerous for those on bikes, Toronto critical injury lawyer Dale Orlando tells 105.5 Moose FM in Huntsville. “You have little or no shoulder, there’s reduced visibility because of all the twists and turns and hills on
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