Recent Ottawa Personal Injury Cases

A Sample of our Ottawa Personal Injury Cases from 2009 and 2010

• $138,000 for a woman in her 50's who broke her ankle after a slip and fall on ice. 

• $80,000 from the accident benefit insurer of a 40-year old man who suffered an accident out of province.   

• $389,000 for a nurse in her 40's struck in a motor vehicle accident on Highway 417.   

• $160,000 for a woman injured on highway 7 when her vehicle rolled off the road. 

• $65,000 for a man in a motor vehicle-truck-pedestrian case.  

• A man from Ottawa settled his Southern Ontario serious whiplash case at mediation less than a year after the case began.

• A 64 year old woman settled her motor vehicle case for a confidential amount.  She continues to receive accident benefits.
• A 42 year old woman settled her back injury case after a slip and fall on a retailer's stairs.
• A 54 year old Ottawa woman settled her soft tissue case for $70,000. She continues to receive accident benefits.
• A man in his mid-30's injured in a single car accident settled his claim for more than $1.3 Million.
• A 57 year old man settled his accident benefit claim for $110,000, after already receiving $130,000 in benefits since his accident.
• An Ottawa woman in her 70's recovered substantial damages for an injury to her neck after slipping and falling at a department store.
• An Ottawa nurse with a torn rotator cuff settled her case with Ottawa lawyer Brenda Hollingsworth's assistance for a generous amount without a lawsuit.
• A widow from Orleans recovered damages with our help after breaking her ankle at a rental cottage she was visiting.
• An 84 year old woman from Alta Vista settled her case, without starting a law suit.  She was struck as a pedestrian walking to her doctor's office for a check up.
• A father in his mid-50s settled two accident claims, on for an accident on Sussex Drive, another for an accident on Meadowlands.
• A mother of two in her early 40's settled her case after being rear ended at a Tim Horton's drive-thru
• A man in his 80's received a six figure settlement after he was rear-ended by a truck on Preston Street.
• A 50 year old Ottawa man obtained a six figure settlement after being struck as a pedestrian.  We had already negotiated a substantial payment from his accident benefit insurer to settle that claim.
• A woman in her 50's recovers damages for negligence by her dentist who slipped while drilling and cut her tongue.
• A woman who slipped and fell at a Nepean area shopping complex recovered damages after fracturing her patella.
• A 40 year old woman who was struck from behind while stopped in Ottawa west recovered a generous settlement for her soft tissue injuries.
• A 14 year old boy recovered a substantial settlement after being struck as a pedestrian and fracturing his knee near Prince of Wales and Meadowlands.

A Sample of Ottawa Personal Injury Cases from the Fall of 2008

• A 41 year old woman had a minor fender bender at a Tim Horton's drive through.  She settled her case for a healthy 5-figure settlement.
• An 82 year old Ottawa man received very large arrears in payments from his accident benefit insurer after a single letter from our law firm.
• A 52 year old government employee recovered from a municipality after a fall on ice left her with a seriously broken leg and ankle.
• Our client was a father of five children.  He had not worked since his car accident on the 417 at the St. Laurent onramp in October 2004.  We obtained a very healthy settlement for him before trial.
• A 39- year old man was a passenger in a car that suffered 4 impacts in an accident on the Queensway.  We obtained a significant settlement for this man at a settlement conference presided over by a judge.
• Our clients' elderly mother was struck by a vehicle as a pedestrian in a parking lot of her nursing home.  We obtained both accident benefits and a damages settlement for her family without having to start a lawsuit.
• We obtained a significant settlement for a single mother of five young children who suffered a knee injury when her minivan was struck from behind on Alta Vista Drive.
• We recently settled a claim by a child who was struck while on a bicycle for significant damages. This case languished in another lawyer's filing cabinet for a year and a half before we took it over and salvaged it for the client.
• We settled a case for a child who was injured in the school yard when a faulty fence sliced his head.  No law suit was required.
• We negotiated a favorable settlement for our client who sustained a shoulder injury in a motor vehicle accident without having to start a law suit.

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