Personal Injury Alliance Law firms’ have handled many precedent setting cases. Precedent-setting cases include hundreds of motor vehicle accident cases, numerous cases against municipalities for defective roads and snow and ice on roadway, a $15.9 million dollar settlement in a medical malpractice case and many other product liability and injury claims.
The three firms of the Personal Injury Alliance have a combined record of precedent-setting results across Ontario’s most complex personal injury cases.
Oatley Vigmond secured what has been described as Canada’s largest spinal cord injury judgment, a $24M+ award, and won the Little v. Sinton brain injury case at $7 million – fourteen times the amount the defence offered. McLeish Orlando obtained a $21 million settlement in a mountain biking fatality case and a $12.1 million judgment in an occupiers’ liability matter. Thomson Rogers LLP secured a $1.5 million punitive damages award against a long-term disability insurer, upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal as the largest such award of its kind in Canada.
Beyond dollar figures, PIA firms have successfully litigated cases against municipalities for defective roads and hazardous winter conditions, establishing rights for injured Ontarians that extend beyond any single client.
Why it matters:
Precedent-setting verdicts do two things. They establish legal rights that benefit all injured people in Ontario, and they tell insurance companies and defence counsel that PIA firms are prepared to take a case to trial and win. That track record is part of why these firms are consistently ranked among Canada’s top personal injury practices by Canadian Lawyer, Best Lawyers, and Lexpert.
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