Helpful personal injury resources

If you have been injured due to snowy or icy conditions, you must provide timely written notice to the municipality and/or the occupier and owner to protect your right to pursue legal action.

Wintertime slips and falls are a common reality of living in Canada with the slippery conditions that happen every winter. Some falls can be prevented through proper winter maintenance. It is therefore very important for Canadian lawyers who practice in this area to be knowledgeable about how and when those winter maintenance obligations are breached, causing injuries that ought to be compensated.

Dog bites can lead to all sorts of injuries, and victims may wish to explore legal recourse. In Ontario, laws regarding dog bites are primarily governed by the Dog Owners' Liability Act (DOLA), which holds dog owners responsible for any damage or injury caused by their pets. Under this Act, a dog owner can be held liable if their dog bites or attacks someone, even if the dog never acted aggressively in the past. Lawyers refer to this as "strict liability", meaning that the owner’s negligence or intent does not need to be proven for liability to be established.

Slips and falls happen. They happen in shopping malls, at sports facilities, in restaurants and they often happen in grocery stores. It is important to remember that while falls sometimes occur without anybody being responsible for what is just an accident, sometimes they are preventable. An occupier (the owner of a grocery store, for example) has a duty to take steps to protect visitors to its premises – this is known as ‘reasonable care’. In determining whether an occupier has discharged its duty, one must determine whether or not the danger was "foreseeable".