Compensation is Still Available When You Weren’t Wearing Your Seatbelt
Injured in a Motor Vehicle Collision But not Wearing your Seat belt? If you or a loved one are injured while riding in a car without a seat belt in Ontario, you are still eligible for accident benefits (no fault benefits) and for compensation from the at-fault driver's insurance company. [...]
Auger Hollingsworth Opens Kanata Personal Injury Law Office
Auger Hollingsworth now has a Kanata location!
Auger Hollingsworth’s Personal Injury Lawyers have 4 Offices to Serve You!
The personal injury lawyers at Ottawa's Auger Hollingsworth Accident & Injury Lawyers are delighted to announce that we now have four personal injury law offices in the Ottawa-area to better serve our clients. These are fully staffed offices with lawyers and other legal professionals ready to serve you at a [...]
21 Tips for a Safe and Prosperous New Year
Happy New Year! There is always lots of anticipation as the clock strikes midnight on December 31st. Hope for a prosperous and healthy new year is at the top of most people's New Year's wish list. As we say good bye to 2016 and welcome 2017, here are 21 [...]
Nothing Says Merry Christmas Like an Ice Scraper!
'Tis the season for shopping for friends and loved ones. If you are a practical personal looking to make a real difference to a family member's well-being, consider the gift of safety. Here are Auger Hollingsworth's 16 gift suggestions for those near and dear to your heart: For inside [...]
New Deductibles for Auto Claims
Monetary Thresholds and Deductibles for Pain and Suffering in your Law Suit against the At-fault Driver An Ontario car accident case has to be worth a particular amount of money before the injured person is entitled to get any money at all for pain and suffering. If your injuries measure [...]
Completing Statutory Accident Benefits Forms
If you have had a motor vehicle accident, you will probably receive forms from your insurance company to complete. Alternatively, you might download the forms from the FSCO website. These forms relate to your application for Statutory Accident Benefits, also known as "no-fault" benefits in Ontario. In order to claim [...]
What A Civil Jury Doesn’t Know
After A Collision, Will You Have a Jury Trial? Jury trials can be risky ventures for Ontario collision victims, especially in Ottawa. Insurance companies often choose jury trials, instead of trials by judge alone, because they believe that juries are harder on injured plaintiffs than a Judge would be. [...]
Confused about 1-800 law firms? You are not alone!
Over the past 18 months, an increasing number of mysterious law firms have started to advertise in Ottawa. You've never heard of them, but suddenly they have a fleet (a fleet!!) of OC Transpo buses, billboards and radio ads. You see those ads and you may well wonder why an [...]
Preparing to Testify at Discovery
Most Ontario personal injury lawyers will tell you that in 2015, we are facing an upswing in the number of personal injury cases that are going to trial. Although the vast majority of accident cases still settle at mediation or at a pre-trial, select cases are being slated, quite [...]
