This paper will provide an overview of the common features of Long Term Disability (“LTD”) insurance contracts, and will provide a primer on the remedies and damages available in LTD litigation. Finally, we will offer practical tips on managing LTD litigation.
Our client’s inspection station licence was revoked by the Ministry of Transportation. After negotiations with the Ministry of Transportation and a two-day hearing at the Licence Appeal Tribunal, our client’s licence was restored with minimal interruption to their business.
Our client was gifted a recreational property 12 years prior to the eruption of a bitter family dispute. Specifically, a family member proceeded to take possession of the property by force and effectively barred our client from attending at or occupying the property. Less than two weeks after our firm was retained by the property’s […]
Our client was a very productive sales person for a mid-size media company. She was terminated, but her backlog of orders continued to flow into the company. The company took the position that our client was not entitled to be paid commissions for sales that she closed after she was terminated. We disagreed and sued […]
Our client was an injured worker who did all the right things – she filed a WSIB claim, she cooperated with her doctors, with her employer, and with the WSIB, for the purposes of returning to work. Although our client did the right things, her employer still suspended her indefinitely without pay, claiming that she […]
Our client was an injured worker who had been fired from his job for alleged misconduct after he had made a request for disability accommodation in the workplace. His employer did not pay him any severance by relying on its allegation of misconduct. We were able to secure a substantial settlement for our client through […]
Our client was in receipt of long-term disability benefits that were arbitrarily cut off by her insurer. We commenced a law suit on behalf of our client against her disability insurer for both breach of contract and negligence. At mediation, we were successful in obtaining a substantial settlement of her claim.
Many of our clients are people and businesses whose insurance claims have been denied. Recently, the owner of a medium-sized business sought our assistance regarding a denied insurance claim concerning a theft in his business. He attended our office on the eve of the expiry of his limitation period and we took immediate steps to […]
Our client was a Muslim woman who was suspended from work after complaining about racial and religious discrimination that she experienced. Our client came to us on the eve of her hearing and unprepared for her hearing. We were able to obtain a substantial settlement for her based on our knowledge of the human rights […]
Our client was a very productive sales person for a mid-size media company. She was terminated, but her backlog of orders continued to flow into the company. The company took the position that our client was not entitled to be paid commissions for sales that she closed after she was terminated. We disagreed and sued […]
