Patey Law Group is dedicated to providing excellent legal representation and advice to clients who often find themselves at one of the most difficult and challenging times of their lives, in the aftermath of a traumatic accident. We are pleased to provide the service of a FREE CONSULTATION to assist you in informing you of your legal rights and responsibilities. If our initial meeting results in you retaining our firm, we will be happy to discuss payment of legal fees and expenses with you. Often we are prepared to take on a case on a contingency basis, meaning we will fund the case by providing legal services without up-front-billing, and rather wait to take a percentage when we settle your claim, or obtain a judgment at trial if necessary.

Patey Law Group practices almost entirely in the discipline of personal injury litigation, including primarily car accidents and other events leading to traumatic injuries, such as slips and falls, manufacturer's liability, some areas of medical negligence. As part of our practice, the lawyers at Patey Law Group engage in litigation in all aspects of insurance, for example, auto claims, occupiers liability, accident benefits and long and short term disability benefits.

In the case of car accidents, the first responder is one's own auto insurer, who is responsible for providing you with statutory accident benefits. These benefits are available to everyone who is injured in a car accident in Ontario, regardless of fault. Patey Law Group will assist you initially in applying to your insurer for all of the benefits you may be entitled to, including income replacement, medical therapies, housekeeping and home maintenance assistance, help with care giving for children and other dependents, attendant care for your personal needs, in addition to other benefits. Our firm is committed to assisting you in applying to obtain timely benefits when you need them the most.


For those individuals with serious and permanent injuries, Patey Law Group will provide you with specialized advice on whether to sue another driver, or other party, that may be legally responsible for your injuries. In such cases, we will represent you in obtaining compensation for your pain and suffering, and income losses you have endured. This area of our practice is called Tort or Negligence law. It is never easy or pleasant to sue someone, but often the possibility of litigation is the only means to get proper and reasonable compensation for you accident-related losses. The lawyers and support staff at Patey Law Group pride themselves in maximizing our client's legal damages claims through diligent and determined advocacy though to trial, if necessary. We will steer you expertly through the initial notice to the other party's insurer, early mandatory disclosure of medical and other information, through the actual issuance and service of the legal claim, and documentary and oral discovery of each party's case. We always are alert to the possibility of settlement, which can happen at any stage of the litigation process. Our objective, however, is never to intend from the outset to proceed to trial, rather we work early and hard to achieve a reasonable and fair settlement as soon after an accident as possible, keeping foremost in our minds the client's rate of recovery, and their future needs. If a trial in front of a judge or jury ultimately does become necessary to recoup the legal damages a client deserves, the legal professionals at Patey Law Group bring decades of experience in preparing for and going into the battle which is a trial.


Often clients of ours have several layers of insurance to protect themselves and their families. Most short term and long term insurers in most cases act quickly and responsibly to provide disability benefits to their insured customers. However, often a dispute arising respecting an individual's ongoing entitlement to these benefits. The legal professionals at Patey Law Group have handled many disability insurance cases through to a fair and successful conclusion for our clients.

The great tool that our lawyers use in achieving a fair and equitable resolution of injury claims is the art of negotiation. This is the skill, coupled with years of experience in insurance litigation, which we exercise with most pride. Too often, a rigid and uncompromising approach leads to a case not achieving as early a settlement as possible. Our effective approach involves providing the insurer early on with the information and documentation it needs to accurately assess a claimant's injuries from a legal perspective, so that the insurer sees that it is proper and fair to pay. Our personnel is equipped with the skills to amass the evidence needed to persuade insurers to pay earlier rather than later.

Mediation, or bringing the insurer to the table to talk settlement with the assistance of a professional mediator, is another effective tool that we often use to achieve successful outcomes for our clients.