April 26th, 2015 As a lawyer practicing in litigation for almost 20 years I have rarely been happier to see a Court of Appeal decision as I have with the recent decision in Westerhof v. Gee Estate 2015 ONCA 206. A simple 2010 rule change in our Civil Procedure book...
May 4th, 2015 No fault accident benefits were supposed to compensate Ontario drivers for the significant reduction in their right to sue. 20 years ago when the right to sue for car accidents was restricted to serious and permanent injuries, the quid pro quo was a...
April 16, 2015 Recently in Iannarella v. Corbett 2015 ONCA 110, the Ontario Court of Appeal released an important decision regarding the disclosure of surveillance evidence in a personal injury trial. Defence lawyers love to use surveillance videos at trial to show...
Girones Lawyers once again will be holding a free legal clinic in Pembroke on April 27th, 2015. Andrea Girones will be meeting with clients and answering questions on a wide variety of personal injury and medical malpractice topics. Andrea has a particular expertise...
March 24th 2015. Recently our firm represented a young man injured at birth. The child sustained a severe brain injury leaving him with the mind of a toddler, inside the body of a 14 year old. CT and MRI images revealed that there was atrophy of the brain cells in...