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It can be extremely difficult to manage a personal injury for anyone. While you are in pain or distressed you will also have to manage the series of financial problems, which can set your family back for months or even years.

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Personal Injury Claims – Ontario – Why You May Need A Lawyer

In Ontario, for many, a traumatic accident such as a high-speed car accident or bicycle accident represents the first time that they’ve experienced dealing with a serious personal injury claim.

As a first time accident victim, you may not have any idea where to start.

Who do you contact to claim compensation? Where will you begin to look for medical treatment that goes above and beyond our already strained Medical Care system after discharge from the hospital? Who is going to pay for all of this care and my entire out of pocket expenses? A personal injury lawyer will have all of these answers for you and more.

A personal injury lawyer will find the cause of the accident, communicate with the insurance company so that you don’t have to; put you in contact with a network of health-care professionals like occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, speech language pathologists, neuro-psychologists, physiotherapists, psychologists and case managers to aid you in recovering all while ensuring that the insurer is paying the bill for your treatment and not you.

Ontario’s personal injury laws are complex and change often. There are a plethora of forms that accident victims are required to complete. These forms need to be submitted by critical deadlines, which only a personal injury lawyer will know.

For example – Did you know that you have to report a car accident for which you are claiming accident benefits within Ten days of that car accident? Did you know that you have to provide notice in writing to a municipality within 10 days of an accident on municipal property? Did you know that you have to report an accident on an Ontario Highway within 30 days if you allege the accident occurred due to poor roadway conditions? Did you know that you have to apply for Mediation at the Financial Services Commission of Ontario before you can sue for accident benefits? Probably not. Failure to know this vital information is the difference between a successful personal injury lawsuit and a failed one.

One of the most important reasons to contact a personal injury lawyer is because they are familiar with the delicate dance between accident victim and insurance company.

Insurance companies are in the business of assessing risk and processing
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personal injury claims just like yours. They have a multitude of employees who are trained to gather information from you and analyze your claim. Insurance companies will insist on taking a statement from you, meeting with you at your home and getting you to fill out forms which you probably don’t even understand. The main purpose of this is to minimize their risk and liability and ruin your potentially meritorious claim before it even gets off the ground. The people which the insurance company will send to meet with you are paid by the insurance company to minimize your claim. These people may leave out important information which can be devastating to a personal injury claim.

One of the worst things I’ve ever seen was a woman who was in a car accident and lost consciousness for 2 minutes following her accident. She had a closed head injury. She reported blurred vision, memory loss, a stutter in her speech, headaches, loss of sleep, dizziness, no appetite and mood swings. Within a week of her accident she was contacted by her insurance company and she agreed to have a person from the insurance company visit her at her home. The insurance company did not mention that the person who was visiting her was an occupational therapist who was going to do an in-home assessment of her needs. The occupational therapist from the insurance company did not include any of her head injury symptoms in her report to the insurance company.

Later, when these symptoms were reported by the accident victim and her family doctor, the insurer failed to acknowledge that these symptoms even existed because they were left out in the occupational therapy report prepared by an agent for the insurer. Later, at trial, on cross examination of the same occupational therapist, she admitted that she did 100% of her work for insurance companies and that she failed to ask the victim about any head injury symptoms because she did not think them to be important. How could she possibly think that blurred vision, headaches, dizziness, loss of sleep and mood swings were not important?

At trial, the insurer was obligated to pay additional damages to this accident victim for its bad faith claims handling. Had this accident victim not consulted a personal injury lawyer, she would never have been entitled to any compensation because the insurance company had made every possible effort to bury all evidence of her accident related impairments.

Finally, there is an old saying, that a self-represented litigant has a fool for a client. That adage could not be further from the truth,primarily when it comes to personal injury claims. Don’t get hurt twice. Know your rights.

By: Henry J. Goldberg

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Brian Goldfinger is the directing lawyer of Goldfinger Personal Injury Law. His firm practices exclusively on behalf of seriously injured accident victims, disability claimants and their families.

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