Accidents can be both physically and financially devastating. When another party’s negligence has caused you to suffer from a financial or physical loss, Canadian law allows you to recover funds so you can be “made whole” again, or made as close to whole as financial compensation can allow. Pursuing a personal injury case can mean getting help with your medical bills, recovering lost wages and earning capacity, and receiving compensation for the pain and suffering you’ve been through. It can also mean receiving punitive damages when the other party has acted in a grossly negligent or otherwise reprehensible fashion. personal injury cases are complex. Each side is trying to prove the other was primarily the cause of the accident. If the defendant can prove you were the primary reason why the accident happened then they, or more often, their insurance company, won’t have to pay. Failing that, in some provinces, they will try to prove you shared a percentage of negligence since they can reduce your award amount by that percentage. This means after you file a claim there is an extensive process of discovery and investigation that takes place, during which we’re helping to nail down the facts of the case. Once you’ve reached maximum medical improvement it’s possible to calculate the full extent of your damages. We then use your actual loss and the facts of the case to support our position in a settlement conference. 92% of the time, cases settle out of court. Sometimes insurance companies push the matter into court. At that point, we argue your case in front of the jury at trial.