Medical Malpractice Lawyer in Scarborough & Toronto

What's Included

Our medical malpractice practice covers the full scope of work most clients need:

• Surgical and anaesthesia errors
• Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis
• Birth and obstetric injuries
• Medication and pharmacy errors
• Hospital-acquired infections
• Informed consent failures
• Coordinating expert medical reports

What to Bring

• Complete medical records
• Hospital discharge summaries
• Imaging and lab reports
• Witness contact information
• Financial records of losses

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Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Toronto & Across Ontario

Medical malpractice cases are among the most difficult and expensive cases in Canadian civil law. Defence is funded by the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), which retains experienced counsel and top experts for every file. Winning requires the same firepower on the plaintiff's side — rigorous case selection, leading experts, and the financial commitment to see a long file through. We bring all three.

The kinds of cases we investigate

• Surgical errors — including wrong-site surgery, retained foreign objects, nerve and vascular injuries, and post-operative care failures.
• Anaesthesia errors — awareness under anaesthesia, hypoxic injury, medication errors.
• Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis — especially cancer, cardiac events, stroke, sepsis and ectopic pregnancy.
• Birth and obstetric injuries — including hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, shoulder dystocia injuries, and failure to recognize fetal distress.
• Hospital and emergency department errors — triage failures, medication errors, and lapses in handover.
• Informed consent failures — where the risks of a procedure were not properly explained.

The role of expert evidence

Every medical malpractice claim turns on the opinion of a qualified specialist who can say that the care fell below the standard a reasonable physician in the same field would have provided. We work with a network of Canadian and international experts. Their reports are also what allows us to assess your case honestly at the outset — we will not take a file we cannot prove.

Damages in serious cases

For a catastrophically injured client, recovery typically includes future income loss, future care, attendant care, housing modifications, assistive devices, treatment costs and pain and suffering (subject to the Supreme Court's cap, currently around $440,000 indexed for inflation). For families who have lost a loved one, the Family Law Act allows claims for loss of guidance, care and companionship.

How we handle cost

Medical malpractice files are run on contingency, with our firm advancing the disbursements — including significant expert fees — until resolution. You owe nothing unless we recover. Ontario's general limitation period is two years from discovery, but limitation issues in medical cases are nuanced. Contact us as soon as possible for a confidential review.