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Part One: Travelling for Pleasure Injuring yourself in a foreign country can be extremely frightening, and securing your compensation for such an injury can be complicated and confusing. In a situation such as this, the assistance of an experienced personal injury lawyer can make all the difference. When you are on vacation, you are focused…

Christmas is the busiest travel season of the year, with everyone pin-balling from one place to the next: driving, flying, taking the train, families hop relentlessly from one event to the next trying to please all the aunts and uncles, grandparents and in-laws. With all of that travelling, things can get a little hairy; with…

When you suffer an injury related to work, a slip and fall accident on someone else’s property or a car crash where you were not at fault, one of the first people you will talk to is your family doctor. Depending on the severity of the injury, you may need to go to the emergency…

With the Christmas season upon, there is a significant amount of running around going on – much more so than during the rest of the year. Between shopping, going to Christmas parties, and visiting relatives, we often find ourselves hustling from one place to the next in a way that does not exactly feel like…

Part One: The Problem In the twentieth century, for years and years during the peak of industrialism in North America, very little was done to prevent loss of hearing in factory or construction settings. In the same way that hockey players never wore helmets early in the NHL, this now seems extremely shocking to us.…

This month on the Goodman Elbassiouni LLP blog, we’d like to draw your attention to a couple of interesting strategies to prevent you from falling and hurting yourself. This may seem paradoxical, since we are a personal injury group that specializes in slip and fall cases; however, we would prefer it if the clients we…

Some people will tell you that accidents in the workplace are an inevitable by-product of commerce and progress. Ever since humans built the pyramids thousands of years ago, there have been many, many deaths and severe injuries resulting from building up civilization and society. Goodman Elbassiouni LLP takes the stance that while there will always…

In a separate edition of Goodman Elbassiouni LLP’s blog this month, we discussed the importance of safety training and diligence in the workplace in order to avoid an injury and an unwanted brush with the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). Many of the clients we’ve worked with over the years suffered from an accident…