Injured in a Car Accident or Slip and Fall - Why Do I need An Expert? Ottawa Injury Lawyer

Injured in a Car Accident or Slip and Fall - Why Do I need An Expert? Ottawa Injury Lawyer

An expert is a person who can assist a tier of fact (jury or Justice - Judge) decide issues in a personal injury trial that are complex and not easily understandable by a lay or ordinary person.

Since most cases never reach a trial, do you still require an expert?

In most cases of personal injury, the answer is yes. While witnesses in a personal injury trial, or any trial for that matter, must only give evidence (testify) as to facts, experts testify as to facts and offer professional opinions in the field of their specialty, based on the facts of the case.

Experts can be qualified as experts by reason of experience, education and training or a combination of experience and credentials. In the field of personal injury, the most common experts are health care providers such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists, future care planners, physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and surgeons and financial exerts such as economists and actuarial experts who calculate income and financial losses. In motor vehicle cases, experts are sometimes retained to reconstruct an accident.

In all cases of expert evidence, the experts testify on behalf of the injured person and offer special knowledge and in turn professional opinions which assists in proving, as a matter of fact or opinion, certain vital elements of an injured person’s case.

At the Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer Network, our team of lawyers at Plant Quinn Thiele LLP, are trained to work with experts. Call us for a free consultation in respect of your personal injury case. Call 613-315-4878 (HURT). Marc Quinn, Ottawa Accident Lawyer