Accidents that involve serious burns can be extremely traumatizing to victims. With severe second or third degree burns, people are often left with long-lasting physical effects including, disfigurement, mobility issues, and crippling chronic pain. These issues may have a direct impact on victims’ abilities to earn a living, or continue to perform in their current …
Whether it is a slip and fall on an icy, wet, uneven, or unsecured surface, several injuries may easily occur to a person’s shoulder, hip, knee, or ankle joints during an awkward fall. Connective tissue and ligament damage may also result in car accidents where there has been a severe impact, twisting a person’s extremities. …
Unfortunately, children represent a large portion of the population who fall victim to dog bite attacks and animal attacks in Alberta. However, the experience for any individual may cause serious injury, scarring, and carry psychological damage that may last a lifetime. If you, or a family member, have suffered from such an attack that requires …
When people suffer from injuries to their head, brain, neck, and/or spinal cord, the costs may be catastrophic. The mental and physical anguish that the victims and their families undergo can be devastating. To ease the pain and suffering, victims and their families deserve to be compensated by the negligent parties. If you have been …
For most employees working in Alberta, they are fortunate to have short-term and long-term (LTD) packages provided by their employer’s benefit package. These benefits clearly provide a level of financial security, if an employee experiences an injury that prevents them from working. However, insurance providers do not look to pay out the full compensation amounts …
As Canadian baby boomers move into to the senior citizen demographic, they and their children are becoming more aware of the necessary and difficult decisions that must be made toward their future care. There is an even more critical choices made when a parent or loved one suffers from complex physical or mental health issues that …
Alberta’s Occupier’s Liability Act applies to the owners, operators, and residents of a property and states that, “An occupier of premises owes a duty to every visitor on the occupier’s premises to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in …
Torn ligaments, broken bones, and fractures are some of the most common personal injury claims in Alberta. At Pipella Law, we have a long-standing reputation for successfully representing clients who are dealing with orthopaedic injuries, and we understand the long-term suffering, rehabilitation costs, and impact of lost income that such injuries create including post-traumatic stress …