Category: Personal Injury Lawyer

In most cases, personal injury lawyers in Huntsville operate on a contingency fee basis meaning that are no up-front payments of out-of-pocket expenses paid by the client. Consequently, the lawyer handling your personal injury claim only gets paid if they are able to win your case and secure the compensation you are suing for. Therefore, it is important for the client to understand how a contingency fee arrangement works. (more…)

Any effort to obtain the medical records of an accident victim exposes the existence of a conflict. The insurance company wants proof of a claimant’s injuries. Yet the claimant has the right to request that his or her medical records remain private. (more…)

In a personal injury case, the insurance company for the defendant must pay the compensation requested by the claimant. The claimant does not dictate the value of his or her claim. The insurance company must calculate the value. (more…)

Any lawyer that has supported a client during a lawsuit in a province other than Ontario might want to learn the peculiarities of Ontario’s personal injury lawsuit. (more…)

An insurance company looks closely at the nature of the injury reported by any accident victim that submits a claim. Was it a simple or complex injury? What sort of liability protection did the policy holder have? The answers to those questions influence the insurance company’s view of a given injury’s value. (more…)

When a court examines the justification for a long-term disability claim, it studies the doctors’ opinions and the results from medical tests. It also tries to evaluate the credibility of the testimony from the person that has submitted the request for long term disability coverage. (more…)

No one wants to get injured while traveling down a passage that leads to a form or underground transportation. By the same token, no one wants to get injured while riding a subway. Still, accidents happen everywhere, even in subways. What steps should a victim take, following an accident in or around a subway? (more…)

The authorities in charge of Ontario’s roads and highways have to deal with one specific group of statistics. Those are the statistics that underscore the frequency with which accidents take place within construction zones. (more…)

Whenever residents of Ontario go to an outdoor festival, each festival-goer expects to see lots of people. Moreover, owing to the nature of the areas where festivals normally take get held, the crowds of people must move about within a limited amount of space. Those two features combine to make any festival a source of potential accidents. (more…)

A different set of facts and circumstances surrounds each accidental occurrence on the ski slope. For that reason, any lawyer hired by the injured skier must study those different facts and circumstances. In that way, the hired personal injury lawyer in Leamington can better ascertain who should be held liable for the skier’s/client’s injuries. (more…)