People get injured in many different places and in many different ways. Consequently, a personal injury lawyer in Ottawa might get asked to handle a variety of cases.

Wrongful death cases

Those arise when a family has alleged that some person or business has carried out an action that has managed to shorten the life of a loved one. Only those family members that had been close to the deceased, or those that had been given the legal authority to represent that same decedent would have the ability to initiate such a lawsuit.

A case arising from a motor vehicle accident

In the event of a car accident, the injured victim might need to prove negligence on the part of the allegedly responsible driver. Alternately, the defendant in a car accident case might want to prove that his or her inability to control the responsible vehicle had been the result of a medical emergency. Sometimes a large truck hits a car. Truck accidents prove a real challenge, because it could be difficult to determine who should be the target of a lawsuit.

A severely injured person has been denied insurance coverage.

A severe injury could force the victim to deal with a disability. In such a situation, the victim’s quest for coverage would get directed to a seller of disability insurance. Some disability policies offer initial coverage for 2 years. After that the policyholder must apply or more coverage.

An employee that had been injured on-the-job would seek worker’s compensation benefits. If those were denied, then the same employee might seek the assistance of a personal injury lawyer.

Representing the victim in a defective product lawsuit

In order to win a defective product lawsuit, the plaintiff must show that he or she was injured, and that the injury was caused a defect in a purchased product. Unless there was proof of an injury, and proof of a link between that same injury and a given product’s recognized defect, the plaintiff would not have a winning case.

Medical malpractice cases

These have arisen from an issue that could prove quite challenging to a personal injury lawyer. The patient must show that the doctor’s actions were not in agreement with those that would have been made by a reasonable physician.

Sometimes, a lawyer must represent a hospital, instead of a doctor. That could be the result, if a hospital had chosen to keep a certain physician on its staff. It’s possible that some physicians had been the target of an earlier medical malpractice case, but had managed to win that case. A hospital might be taking a risk, by allowing such a physician to remain on the listing of the doctors on its staff.