Ottawa Car Accident Lawyers – Spinal Cord Injuries
Car accidents are the cause of almost 50% of serious spinal cord injuries. When an accident leads to spinal cord injuries, it is usually one of the following: Excessive spinal pressure (compression) Spinal bruising (contusion) Lacerations Some of the symptoms of a serious spinal cord injury are: severe back [...]
Ontario Accident Lawyer: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – An Overview
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or two terrifying events that threatened or caused grave physical harm. Background An Egyptian physician in 1900 BCE was the earliest to deal with some aspects of hysterical reactions to trauma. Much later, Sigmund [...]
Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyers- Useful Links
Resources for Spinal Cord Injury Patients If you have suffered a spinal cord injury in Ottawa, you should be aware of the resources* available to you in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Ottawa Hospitals Serving Accident Victims: The Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre: Located next to the Ottawa General Hospital on Smyth [...]
Ottawa Spinal Cord Injury Lawyer, Paraplegia and Quadriplegia Lawyer, Traumatic Brain Injury Lawyer in Ottawa
If you have suffered a catastrophic injury in Ontario as a result of a car accident, motor vehicle accident, slip and fall or defective product, you should hire an experienced personal injury lawyer. Although there are some accident claims that can be handled without a lawyer, injuries causing significant [...]
Ottawa Accident Lawyer: Soft Tissue Injuries? Ottawa Injury: Chronic Pain Disorder?
If you have had an Ottawa motor vehicle accident, or other type of accident, you may have suffered injury to your muscles, tendons, fasciae or ligaments. This injury may have been caused by whiplash or by another mechanism of injury. Some of your post-accident symptoms may be neck pain, back [...]
What is My Ottawa Chronic Pain Accident Case Worth?
If you are like most Ottawa and Ontario accident victims, before you start a lawsuit for damages, you would like to know what your case is worth? Will you get a settlement? How much will your settlement be? In Ontario, damages are determined primarily based on legal precedents. Your case [...]
Compensation After a Fatal Accident in Ontario
In the unfortunate event of a fatal accident, certain family members of the victim may have a claim for both pecuniary damages (economic losses) and non-pecuniary damages (pain and suffering losses). The right to claim these damages comes from the Family Law Act. Damages following a fatal accident may [...]
Ottawa, Ontario Brain Injury Lawyer, Acquired Brain Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury
The Ontario brain injury lawyers at Auger Hollingsworth have excellent experience representing people who have sustained traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and closed head injuries. Our Ottawa injury lawyers understand how these injuries affect the victims and the victims's families. Our Ottawa brain injury lawyers understand the causes and symptoms [...]
Have You Suffered a Slip and Fall In Kingston?
The injury lawyers at Auger Hollingsworth can help you with your Kingston injury claim. You may be entitled to compensation because of an injury on someone else's property in Kingston or the surrounding areas. We handle cases where injuries have occured on ice in Kingston or elsewhere in Ontario. Have you tripped over a [...]
SABS: Home Renovations, Work Accomodation, Vehicle Modification
INTRODUCTION to ACCIDENT BENEFITS People injured in motor vehicle accidents in Ontario generally qualify for statutory accident benefits (sometimes called accident benefits, ABs or SABS). Injured people, especially those who suffer mobility impairments, often face the challenge of being discharged from a rehabilitation centre, (The Ottawa Rehabilitation Centre, The [...]
