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WebSuperior Court deems plaza occupiers responsible for slip-and-fall injury, by Bernise Carolino - LAW TIMES, June 23, 2025
The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that the occupiers' shortcomings in properly salting and inspecting the parking spaces at a plaza and removing snow and ice from them were the probable cause of a woman's fall and consequent injury. The court found that the defendants' negligence caused the plaintiff's fall, that her damages would not have occurred but for that negligence, and that nothing in the evidence established the plaintiff's contributory negligence.

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PDFTara Rodrigues Canada Pension Plan Disability Appeal Decision, November 21, 2025
Our client , a 44-year-old former administrative assistant, applied for Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPP-D) benefits in September 2022 after years of struggling with adenomyosis. Service Canada denied her claim on March 8, 2023, stating that her medical conditions did not meet the statutory definition of “severe and prolonged” disability. With the assistance of Deutschmann de Koning Law, our client requested a reconsideration of Service Canada’s decision, but Service Canada upheld its denial. We then appealed to the Social Security Tribunal’s General Division. Despite extensive medical evidence and testimony, the General Division dismissed the appeal. The Tribunal acknowledged that our client had functional limitations but emphasized that she had not attempted to find alternative employment or retraining, and she retained some work capacity. The Member pointed to her ability to care for her young children and assist with homeschooling as evidence that her conditions did not completely prevent her from functioning. We challenged the General Division’s decision before the Social Security Tribunal’s Appeal Division, on the basis that the General Division failed to properly assess the cumulative impact of our client’s condition on her ability to work. Our position was that the General Division placed undue emphasis on theoretical work capacity without considering the true unpredictability and severity of her symptoms and the impact of those symptoms on her ability to work in the real word. In November 2025, the Appeal Division recognized that our client’s unpredictable and incapacitating symptoms prevented her from offering the regular performance required by any employer and she qualified for CPP-D benefits.

PDFSprowl vs. First Capital - June 18, 2025
Our firm represented the plaintiff in this successful trial decision decision. Our client was an elderly lady who suffered serious injuries, including a broken hip requiring surgery, when walking through the parking lot of a large commercial plaza. The defendants, the owner of the plaza and their winter maintenance company, maintained that they followed an appropriate standard of care in regards to plowing, salting and inspecting the lot. The judge found in favor of our client, noting that the defendants failed to ensure that the rows of parking spaces had a sufficient amount of salt in order to prevent ice from accumulating where customers would be expected to walk to and from their cars.