Blog

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 deaths and severe injuries that resulted from workplace accidents. We believe that, while there will always be a few yearly injuries in the…

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…

In Toronto, over the past few years, biking infrastructure has grown to accommodate the city’s massive population of cyclists. Bike lanes are now located on Bloor, and Sherbourne even has a partitioned bike lane (à la Montreal) to protect cyclists from automobiles. Here at Goodman Elbassiouni LLP, we think that cycling is a fantastic way…

We are reaching the zenith of cottage season here in Ontario this month: the waterskies are out, the motor boat is revved up and the dock party is in full swing. Even lawyers need a break once in awhile, and here at Goodman Elbassiouni LLP we certainly relish the opportunity to spend some time in Ontario’s…

The question that has provided this entry of the GE LLP blog with its title is a very complex one indeed. There are so many different ways to slip and fall and so many levels of physical harm that one can incur, that it is almost never a straightforward cut-and-dried scenario. Here at Goodman Elbassiouni…

If you live Toronto, and are a citizen of the country of Canada, then you are extremely fortunate in several regards. First of all, the fact that Canadians benefit from public health care is amazing, just think how awful it would be to have to pay extravagant medical bills every time you were injured or…

In Ontario, most drivers who end up in an auto-collision are covered to some degree under the insurance provided by their employers. This may be confusing to many people who pay good money for auto insurance, since the insurance company may not have to pay a dime depending on the severity of their injury. If…