#AskCoryRubin The popularity of Uber, Lyft and other companies known as ride-hailing or ride-sharing services has exploded throughout Ontario. Toronto, for instance, last year reported that almost 70,000 drivers had signed up to drive for both Uber and Lyft. This number does not include drivers registered with other ride-hailing companies operating within the city. The convenience of using an app on your smartphone to summon a vehicle to your location raises questions about liability and the steps to take following an accident involving a ride-hailing vehicle resulting in personal injuries. What is a ride-sharing service? Ride-sharing services make use of ...
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#AskCoryRubin The snow and cold temperatures of winter offer opportunities for residents and visitors to take advantage of the many opportunities to take to the slopes for skiing and snowboarding throughout Ontario. Regardless of your skill level, accidents and injuries are a common occurrence. When the cause of an accident on the slopes is caused by negligence or carelessness of another party, you could be entitled to make a claim for compensation. Who might be at fault for your skiing or snowboarding injury? Skiing and snowboarding are inherently dangerous activities. You accept the risk of injury normally associated with venturing onto the ...
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#AskCoryRubin Motorcycles are a popular form of recreation and transportation throughout Canada. They are fun to ride and are fuel efficient to help their owners save money. There are more than 600,000 motorcycles registered across the country with about 30 percent of them registered in Ontario. A study of deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents in Ontario reveals that motorcyclists represent a disproportionate percentage of road fatality victims. They account for 10 percent of road deaths, but they only represent 2 percent of the vehicles on the roads. If you enjoy riding a motorcycle to get around on your daily commute ...
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#AskCoryRubin Sports fans in Ontario have baseball, hockey and other professional teams to follow. The popularity of spectator sports and the sizable crowds drawn to those events can increase the likelihood of fans suffering injuries either as a result of a baseball or hockey puck flying into the crowd or as a result of the actions of other spectators. Personal injury lawyers are frequently called upon to determine responsibility when someone is injured while attending a sporting event. Hockey pucks, baseballs and other risks of a sport A baseball player being hit by a pitched ball and a hockey player struck by ...
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#AskCoryRubin Public transit systems located throughout Ontario offer a convenient and inexpensive method for people to travel about. The GO transit system servicing the Toronto and Hamilton areas now carries more than 70 million passengers each year. Other bus and rail systems are equally as popular with local residents and visitors. As with other means of transportation, such as cars, accidents can happen and people can suffer serious injuries. Recovering compensation against a public transit system can be difficult, but it is not impossible with the help of experienced personal injury lawyers aggressively investigating and pursuing the claim. The rights of accident ...
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#AskCoryRubin Speeding, tailgating and weaving in and out of lanes are more than bad driving behaviours that violate the law, they are also signs of aggressive driving. According to the provincial police in Ontario, fatalities caused by aggressive driving have increased by at least 80 percent. Aggressive and unsafe driver behaviour is so dangerous that the provincial government amended the Highway Traffic Act to make common aggressive driving behaviours a violation of the law punishable by fines, license suspension and the possibility of serving six months in jail. Recognizing aggressive driving Someone who drives in a hostile and unsafe way showing little or ...
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#AskCoryRubin A recent announcement by the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board of Ontario of changes it plans to implement in how it sets premiums for 300,000 businesses in the province might have drawn only passing interest from most people. Unless you own a business or you are a worker who has suffered an injury on the job, the WSIB goes about its work largely unnoticed. Workers’ compensation and the WSIB Creation of a process for compensating individuals injured through work-related accidents or diseases without regard to fault resulted in establishment of workers’ compensation in Canada and administered by each province and territory. ...
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#AskCoryRubin In major cities throughout Ontario, a large segment of the population relies on taxi cabs each day. As an example, there are more than 5,000 taxis driven by more than 10,000 licensed cab drivers in Toronto, and an estimated 60,000people in the city make use of them each day. Taxis are a convenient way to get around, but cab drivers are as at risk to be involved in a collision with another vehicle as is any driver. When accidents occur, injured passengers could be left wondering about their compensation rights for the injuries they suffer. Licensing requirements for cab drivers ...
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#AskCoryRubin Playgrounds offer an opportunity for children to get some exercise outdoors, but allowing your children to play on some of them could be increasing the risk of injury. News reports point to playgrounds in Ontario and throughout Canada as causing injuries to more than 28,000 children each year. The lack of regulations requiring upgrading of older equipment is one factor that could be causing so many children to be hurt on them, but there are other reasons as well. Standards for playground safety It might come as a surprise to learn Canada does not have a national standard for playground equipment. ...
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#AskCoryRubin Injuries place a financial strain on the nation’s health care system. More than 3,000,000 residents throughout Canada suffer serious injuries each year at a cost of almost $20 billion. Injuries are the third leading cause of death in Ontario behind cancer and heart disease with 16 people dying each day in the province because of an injury they suffered. Sadly, many, if not most, injuries are preventable provided people make decisions that minimize rather than increase the risk of injury. Leading causes of injuries According to studies, two of the leading causes of unintentional injuries are falls and transportation incidents. Transportation accidents result ...
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