Success Stories

After Mr. Rodrigues’ house burned down, his insurance company refused to pay his claim, stating the policy was in default. The company claimed his house was a rooming/boarding house based on previously installed locks.

For the first time in Canada, Alfred Kwinter established that one does not need to remember the exact location of an accidental fall to be reimbursed for injuries. Mrs. Kamin fell in the parking lot outside the popular Kawartha Dairy and broke her hip. As the lot was in poor repair, Alfred Kwinter argued that the condition of the lot “most likely” caused the fall, although the exact location could not be determined. The Ontario Court of Appeal agreed. This appeal established a new law for slip and fall cases.

When the Plester’s furniture store burned down in 2003, the insurance company refused to pay, blaming arson as the cause of the fire. A ruling of arson meant that the Plester’s were unable to collect their benefit claims, and were left without any way to recover their business.

Since 1974, Singer Kwinter’s trusted team of personal injury lawyers have been protecting the right’s of individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and insurance claim denials. As an example of their proven success, Singer Kwinter achieved a 7 million dollar settlement for a victim of a serious accident.

In July 2009, the highest award at trial ever given in Canada for a chronic pain and fibromyalgia case was given to Diane Degennaro. Diane fractured her tailbone after a hospital bed that she was sitting on collapsed.

After a construction accident, Mr. Leonard severed his spinal cord and lost function from the waste down. His policy through Manulife covered loss of use of both his lower limbs. However, Mr. Leonard continued to rehabilitate himself and through the building of muscles in his pelvis taught himself how to swing his legs around to slowly ‘walk’.

Alfred Kwinter, founding partner of Singer Kwinter, Barristers and Jason Singer, win a $1.4 million verdict for his client’s motor vehicle accident case yesterday in a Newmarket court.