Car accidents can be a traumatic experience—physically, emotionally, and financially. In the aftermath of an accident, you might be dealing with everything from painful injuries to insurance headaches. While your immediate focus will likely be on recovering from your...
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Why It’s Important to Seek Legal Guidance After a Slip and Fall Accident
Accidents happen when we least expect them, and one of the most common types of accidents that can occur unexpectedly is a slip and fall. Whether you’re walking down a sidewalk in your neighbourhood, entering a store, or visiting a public park, hazardous conditions...
Free Injury and Insurance Denial Legal Clinics Coming to Pembroke Spring of 2025
Girones Lawyers is coming to Pembroke for a series of free legal clinics this spring. Our firm will not ask you to pay ANY money upfront if we take on your car accident, insurance denial, birth injury, dog bite, wrongfull dismissal or slip and fall injury case....
New Case Qualification tool Announced
Andrea Girones is pleased to announce a new tool available on the website to quickly see if you potentially have a case against your long term disability insurance company. Visit this page to try it yourself and send it to a friend in need.
Globe & Mail Report on The Civil Law System in Ontario
This week the Globe & Mail published a scathing assessment of Canada’s civil court law system. Any lawyer who works in civil litigation and all of their clients already know how badly our system is broken. I attended a trial management court this morning...
Lessons from Rathan v. Scheufler 2023 ONSC 3232
This month Andrea Girones is presenting at the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association Legal Conference on “Medical Malpractice Trials, Tips and Tricks” for winning these difficult case. In particular she will discuss some of the challenges faced in her successful...
Girones Lawyers Win at Trial -Brachial Plexus Injury Caused by Force
Andrea Girones is pleased to announce that after a 4 month trial on Zoom, Justice Emery of the Superior Court of Ontario, has ruled in favour of our young client in the matter of Rathan v. Dr. Scheufler. The young plaintiff sustained a permanent birth injury to her...
Property damage from Ontario’s storm? You may be entitled to home and car insurance claims
Ontario was hit hard by a severe storm on May 21. Here in Ottawa, winds peaked around 190 km/h and weather-related damages left hundreds of thousands of residents without power for days on end. If you live in an area affected by the storm, it’s likely...
What you need to know about Ontario’s contingency fee amendments
Significant changes to legislation surrounding Ontario’s contingency fees – a sum of money a lawyer receives for fees only if there is a favourable result – have come into effect as of July 1, 2021. A contingency fee agreement is the usual way that victims of car...
What you need to know about new slip-and-fall legislation
Slip-and-fall accidents can happen at any time, but in Ontario these accidents occur most commonly in the winter when ice and snow build up on sidewalks, front steps, and roadways, creating hazards for pedestrians. While victims of slip-and-fall accidents on snow and...
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