The threshold as it relates to serious bodily injury cases.
Insight into how to determine, plan, work for, and win appropriate damages for your client.
An essay on crafting opening statements to a jury during a Medical Malpractice trial. Excerpts from the Cubello case included.
What exactly does “marked impairment” mean? According to the AMA’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 4th ed., 1993, a person with a marked impairment in daily activities, is a person whose behavioral impairments significantly impede most useful functioning with cleaning, shopping, cooking, riding a bus, paying bills, maintaining a residence, grooming, using a telephone or working.
Aviva refused to accept the conclusion of its own doctors and argued that suffering a single marked impairment was insufficient. It denied further medical and rehabilitation benefits based on an incorrect interpretation of the law.
We congratulate Roger Oatley for the recognition bestowed by this respected peer review publication. Best Lawyers has named Roger Oatley the 2013 Lawyer of the Year for Legal Malpractice Law in the Toronto area.