Category: Motor vehicle accidents

According to Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act, if your son or daughter causes an accident while driving your vehicle, you could be financially liable for the other party’s injuries and property damage. This law provides explicit guidelines regarding a parent’s liability in a motor vehicle accident that resulted careless or negligent driving. Furthermore, the law also states that, unless someone was driving the vehicle without the registered owner’s consent, that they will be held liable for any financial losses and property damage. (more…)

If you have been injured in a motor vehicle accident, then you must perform 2 acts that do not strengthen the protection of your rights. Still, once you have completed that pair of tasks, then you should feel free to focus on the action that does provide your rights with a larger level of protection. (more…)

Any resident of Ontario has 2 good reasons for considering the possibility of buying optional benefits. Each benefit manages to extend a bit further the scope of the coverage provided by the Province’s Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS). In addition, each optional benefit increases the total amount of money offered by SABS. (more…)

At the time of a motor vehicle accident, an identified driver might be held responsible for a single collision. In the case of a defective product, a long line of victims might get hurt by the replication of one particularly dangerous defect. Sometimes all those victims get together and file a class action lawsuit. (more…)

Insurance companies have been using this trap for more than 50 years. Yet some accident victims still get snagged in the insurer’s trap. (more…)