Toronto Personal Injury Lawyer
35 Years of Litigation Experience Matters
Toronto personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson’s experience is rare: he has worked in the Personal Injury and Disability areas for both individuals and insurance companies for 35 years. This gives him unique insight on how a personal injury claim should be argued and presented at trial before a judge. He has also worked for insurance defence law firms. He knows how the lawyers acting for insurance companies think and he knows how judges and juries deciding personal injury cases look at the facts of a personal injury case as well as case law. That’s a lot of advantages in your corner when you’re looking for a Toronto personal injury lawyer.
Types of Toronto Personal Injury law claims we handle
Toronto personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson can assist you with a broad range of personal injury claims including:
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Administrative service-only policies
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Assault injuries
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Criminal compensation claims
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Critical illness policies
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Life policies and death benefits – group and individual
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Mortgage protection and credit protection policies
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Motor Vehicle Accidents – tort and accident benefits
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Physical, psychological and psychiatric disability
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Serious dog bite injuries
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Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability denied claims
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Salary continuation benefits
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Self-funded employer disability plans
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Slip, fall/trip, and fall injuries
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Third-party service providers
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Trade union trustee plans
Personal attention from your Toronto Personal injury lawyer
When you retain Toronto personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson to represent your interests in an accident claim, you are getting Justin James Robinson, himself. After you sign our retainer agreement, your case is not handed off to a more junior lawyer or law clerk.
This is particularly important in catastrophic cases that are life-changing. Toronto Personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson has serious experience dealing with these types of injuries:
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Brain injuries
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Spinal cord injuries
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Short-term disability claims
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Long-term disability claims
Justin James Robinson has extensive experience gained over many years acting for Manulife, a leading life insurance company, and all of the leading casualty and bodily insurers. He knows injuries and disabilities. He knows how the insurance industry works.
We have access to the very best treatment providers, physicians, surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists, and personal support workers who specialize in the treatment you may require.
We have access to experts whose testimony has been well received by the courts and who are regarded as impartial.
We do not run a high-volume practice. We do not handle hundreds of accident claims where it is sometimes difficult to get your lawyer on the phone, to learn the status of your case.
Strategy. Wisdom. Negotiating power.
Serious experience to solve your legal problems.
What is a Personal Injury Law claim worth?
For personal injury law claims, the courts have established awards for pain and suffering. Depending upon the particular circumstances the following awards for pain and suffering are common:
A broken leg, ankle or upper extremity
Chronic pain
Death
Scarring
Spinal injury resulting in immobility
$25,000
$125,000
$25,000 to $125,000
$10,000 to $50,000+
$350,000
Factors which can increase these personal injury awards are:
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Income Loss.
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Medical treatment and therapy.
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Personal support workers and carers.
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Residential renovation accommodating wheel-chair access, etc.
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Customized motor vehicle/transport.
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Psychological injuries or the aggravation of psychiatric disorders resulting from sleeplessness.
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Delay in entering the workforce, temporary disability from the workforce or from ones chosen profession; or in extreme cases, permanent disability.
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In very serious cases the future cost of treatment, support and personal care is substantial and devastating.
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A statutory claim under the Insurance Act (from statutory motor vehicle no fault accident benefit scheme) also provides benefits to pay for necessary and reasonable treatment, rehabilitation, physiotherapy, psychological treatment and therapy to give you the confidence to get back into a vehicle, that is not covered by OHIP.
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The integration or co-ordination of the benefits available from employment benefits, OHIP, accident benefits from motor vehicle insurance, short term and long-term disability, CPP disability, tort claims, etc. is a very complicated and specialized field.
Justin James Robinson
Your lawyer for heavy lifting™.
Notable Toronto personal injury cases we have handled
Here are some of the personal injury cases that personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson has handled during his 35-year legal career:
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Catastrophic claims—the most serious accident injury claims—where he has acted both for and against individuals confined to a wheelchair, without the ability to ambulate [walk on their own], bathe, toilet, groom, dress, undertake domestic housework, without a personal support worker.
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Personal injury claims both for and against injured persons suffering psychiatric challenges over a wide range of diagnoses including: depression; anxiety; PTSD; bipolar; schizophrenia; and more.
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Personal injury claims for and against persons suffering from real, but invisible injuries including: chronic pain; fibromyalgia; chronic fatigue syndrome and serious jaw, neck, shoulder; upper extremity and soft tissue spinal injuries.
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Medical malpractice/negligence cases against: dentists, hospitals, nurses, physicians, surgeons, and other treatment providers.
A Toronto Personal Injury lawyer with empathy
Injuries affect different people in different ways. Sometimes, an injured person can work for years with an injury before succumbing to what may very likely be an inescapable inability to perform at the level required by their employer. When you’ve been injured, it helps to have a Toronto personal injury lawyer with empathy, like Justin James Robinson.
The people around accident victims including human resource managers, managers and co-workers, and family and friends have, for decades regarded some disabled workers/persons with valid and meritorious physical, psychological and psychiatric claims as “malingerers.” “Malingering” is a valid term used by medical professionals to describe a person who may be describing subjective symptoms to consciously avoid the rigours of their duties. In other words, “slacking off.”
Various work ethics prevailing in cultures across the globe expect members of society to perform at levels that are sometimes quite unrealistic for genuinely disabled workers and persons. These biases combined with economic necessity, fear for reputation, fear of reprisal, family duty and other circumstantial factors influence workers to keep working, in some cases, for many years beyond their realistic capacity.
Generally, people who have never been in an accident, never been hurt, have never been diminished by their symptoms, and have never faced how to provide for themselves and their families with the prospect of not being able to earn an income lack awareness and understanding of the consequences of an accident. They lack empathy.
Justin James Robinson is a Toronto personal injury lawyer who understands what you are going through if you have been injured. He has empathy and the experience, knowledge and legal skills to help you.
A Toronto Personal Injury lawyer who also acts for insurance companies
When called on, Toronto Personal Injury lawyer Justin James Robinson acts on behalf of insurance companies against individuals seeking to enrich themselves by exaggeration, selective disclosure of the facts, and deceit.
Getting hurt through your own actions and then looking for someone or an insurance company to fund your recovery is also unethical. Toronto Personal Injury lawyer Justin James Robinson believes that fair is fair. But insurance fraud is a crime. If you know someone who is trying to defraud an insurer, you can make an anonymous report it by calling 1-877-422-8477. Or, contact the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
In order for there to be financial compensation for an accident, incident, or causal health condition, there needs to be demonstrated proof that physical, emotional, psychological, and financial hardship was the result of someone’s negligence or someone’s fault. This is the fundamental premise of personal injury law. Claims for disability under disability benefit policies do not require proof of causation.
Toronto personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson accepts briefs from other personal injury lawyers that require competent and experienced counsel available to appear in court, including on relatively short notice, subject to availability.
Injured in an accident? Call us now.
Toronto personal injury lawyer Justin James Robinson is the first step to your recovery. If you’ve been hurt in an accident, are in pain, stressed and wondering what your next step should be, call us now to arrange for an initial consultation.