Wrongful Dismissal Claims: When An Employer Plays Bait and Switch Dave called me up last year. He worked for the same Collingwood construction company for 27 years. He was good at what he did and was well paid. Last year, the company announced that Dave’s construction unit would be sold. The word went out that […]
Your Rights As An Employee During The COVID-19 Pandemic Let Tamming Law help answer your questions about your employment and the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis. Canada has never faced a crisis of this nature before. Most employers are running scared. Their cash on hand is being drained as they try to continue to make payroll. Most […]
IF I WAS INJURED AT WORK, WHY CAN’T I SUE? If you are injured in the course of many kinds of work, often you have no right to sue. You are stuck with the inferior benefits of our worker’s compensation system (“WSIB”). The law puts a huge “No Trespassing” sign in front of your local […]
Worried About Being A Plaintiff in Court? Read This Guide With luck, you will only be a plaintiff once in your life. No one goes to school for this, and I have noticed that there really is not much literature on how to be a plaintiff. Lawyers somehow assume that clients will “get it” somehow […]
Why Should You Consider Hiring A Local Law Firm? It seems to me about once a month we inherit a client from another law firm located out of this region. These clients are almost always frustrated. They have had limited to no face-to-face communication with the law clerks working on the file, let alone the […]
Slip and Fall Injuries: Personal and Business Owner Liability “You should have watched where you were going.” Last year, 21,000 Ontarians attended emergency wards after falling on ice or snow. Some were drinking. Others were wearing Crocs. Still others were running like it was a summer day. Some injured victims do attract blame. But thousands […]
Reasons Why Your Insurance Company Denies Benefits You care about right and wrong a whole lot more than your insurer does. To you, it is a matter of fairness. You paid for your benefits for years and you deserve to call on the insurer when you are at your most vulnerable. To your insurer, it […]
John Tamming: Reflecting on the Rule of Law Seventy five years ago, farm boys from Manitoba and steelworkers from Hamilton marched to liberate my parents’ homeland, the Netherlands. Thousands remained behind, their graves kept immaculate by Dutch schoolchildren. Under the occupation, judges were appointed by occupying forces, police chiefs became untrustworthy and the rule of […]
Wrongful Termination: Advice from A Local Law Firm “Getting fired is nature’s way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.” – anonymous Sometimes a person loses her job out of the blue; she never saw it coming. But I have found that usually the employee has an idea of […]
Ontario’s Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS): What It Is & What You Need To Know If you have valid automobile insurance and were injured in an automobile accident, you are entitled to Ontario’s standard auto insurance policy benefits. This coverage applies for anyone injured in a car accident, regardless of who was at […]
