Birth Injury Claims Involving Midwives in Ontario
A patient’s guide to midwifery malpractice in Ontario. Scope of practice, consultation duties, the liability framework, and the most common claim categories.
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The Business of PI: Boosting Success Through Strategy and Partnerships
How plaintiff-side PI practice works as a business: case screening, partnerships, and resourcing. From a 2024 Legal Innovation Forum panel.
An Uncomplicated Hysterectomy, Both Ureters Injured, and a Settlement
A settlement on behalf of a 40-year-old woman whose hysterectomy was described as uncomplicated but resulted in injuries to both ureters and chronic disability.
Is Medical Malpractice on the Rise in Canada?
A look at the most recent CMPA and CIHI data on medical malpractice, hospital harm, and what the numbers actually say about patient safety in Canada.
Noel v Hawrylyshyn: Battery, Informed Consent, and Urgent Operative Delivery
A 17-day birth injury trial. Battery, informed consent, five negligence allegations, and causation all addressed and rejected. A multi-ground defence dismissal.
Hasan v Trillium: When the Defendant’s Negligence Creates the Evidentiary Gap
The Court of Appeal affirmed plaintiff causation in a stroke malpractice case, holding that defendants cannot rely on evidentiary gaps their own negligence created.
Bloody Stools, a Family History of Colon Cancer, and a Three-Year Diagnostic Delay
A settlement on behalf of a woman in her 60s whose family physician dismissed three years of GI symptoms despite a known family history of colon cancer.
Hemmings v Peng: When the Anaesthetic, Not AFE, Caused the Catastrophe
The Court of Appeal affirmed a $12 million plaintiff verdict for catastrophic maternal brain injury, rejecting the defence theory of amniotic fluid embolism.
Williamson v Wang: When a Broken Needle Doesn’t Prove a Breach
A failed obstetric epidural with a fractured needle did not prove substandard technique. The British Columbia court rejected outcome-based reasoning on both grounds.