Personal Injury Lawyer: Helping Those With Traumatic Injuries Requiring Hospitalization
Darcy Merkur is a trauma lawyer with over 20 years experience helping people in Toronto and throughout Ontario that have had a prolonged stay in a trauma hospital (like Sunnybrook Hospital, St. Michael’s Hospital or Sick Kids Hospital) following an accident.
If your family is sleeping at a trauma hospital worried about you, then you may want to reach out to Darcy to see if he can help. If you or your loved one has suffered a significant brain injury (such as one involving a coma) or has suffered major orthopaedic and/or spinal cord injuries (like where surgery is required) then contact Darcy Merkur at Thomson Rogers. Darcy provides absolutely free no-obligation consults to anyone, anytime.
Potential clients are often scared to call a lawyer. And when they finally do they get stuck navigating through various receptionists before ever getting to talk to an actual lawyer.
Darcy’s approach is different.
Darcy believes in a personal touch. He answers his own phone and fields client inquiries instantaneously through:
Try contacting Darcy Merkur directly and be impressed with how quickly he responds!
Darcy believes your questions should be answered within minutes – not days nor hours – because he knows accident victims and their families can’t always wait to get answers to their important questions about insurance coverage and hospital discharge plans. Not only does Darcy understand your legal rights, but he strives to understand your injuries as well. For example, to better understand brain injuries, Darcy became the only lawyer in Canada qualified as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist by the Brain Injury Association of America.
Darcy’s focus is on helping clients recover from their injuries. When potential clients ask Darcy how much their case is worth, Darcy shifts their focus to be on helping their loved one recover. He would prefer his clients to make a great recovery and receive fair compensation than receive massive compensation as a result of a poor recovery.
Darcy facilitates his clients’ recovery by using his more than 20 years experience to personally assemble a rehabilitation team to assist his clients and by ensuring that the responsible insurance companies fund everything along the way.
Darcy’s clients love his positivity, responsiveness and approach to keeping them fully and regularly informed.
While Darcy handles all types of personal injury claims, he spends most of his time assisting catastrophically injured motorists. Darcy has extensive experience helping seriously injured children and teenagers, helping motorcycle accident victims, helping injured pedestrians and helping families of fatality victims.
Darcy’s credentials are impeccable. He is proud to be one of only several plaintiff’s personal injury lawyers in Ontario with all of the following credentials:
Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Ontario
Is a partner at a Top 10 Personal Injury Law Firm in Canada according to Canadian Lawyer Magazine
Is a partner at one of the Best Law Firms in Canada in Personal Injury Litigation as recognized by The Globe and Mail 2022
Darcy takes great pride in his reputation in the legal industry. He personally developed the Ontario Personal Injury Damages Calculator used by hundreds of personal injury lawyers in Ontario to help quantify the value of personal injury claims.
Darcy has helped obtain some incredible personal injury results. For example, Darcy, along with his partner Craig Brown of Thomson Rogers, received an extremely successful jury verdict of $3.5 million on behalf of a teenage brain injury accident victim. The Judge acknowledge the marvellous job done by Darcy and Craig advocating on behalf of the injured victim and his family. In fact, the Judge awarded Darcy and Craig a very rare $100,000 costs premium for having achieved an outstanding result (2006 CanLII 24128 (ON S.C.)). Darcy welcomes hearing from you. Call him and see if he can help.
Darcy Merkur’s Personal Injury Damages Calculator
Darcy has also built a reputation as an innovator in the personal injury field. He has designed a revolutionary computer program for use in quantifying personal injury claims and his product is now available for sale through the legal publisher Carswell under the title “The Ontario Personal Injury Damages Calculator”. The program can also be used to quantify the value of past and future accident benefits available under the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS), such as attendant care benefits, income replacement benefits, medical and rehabilitation benefits and other benefits available in cases of catastrophic impairment. The program is instrumental for accurately evaluating compensation in car accident cases, slip and fall cases, slip and fall cases and other negligence cases.
Certified Brain Injury Specialist by the Brain Injury Association of America
LEXPERT® Ranked Lawyer
Listed in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada since 2013
Martindale-Hubbell® Ranked Lawyer, AV Preeminent®
Previously on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association between 2015 through 2018
Personal Injury Advisory Board for Practical Law Canada (a Carswell/Thomson, Reuters service)
Past Co-Chair of the Brain Injury Awareness Month Planning Committee, a committee of the Brain Injury Society of Toronto
Recipient of the 2011 Dean Edgell Award, presented by the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
Member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
Member of the Advocates’ Society
Member of the Canadian Bar Association
Member of the Ontario Bar Association
Member of the American Association for Justice
Member of FAIR (Fair Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform)
Industry recognition
Testimonials
Nick
Trauma Lawyer Darcy Merkur – Making a Difference
Nick was just a typical 20-year-old on his way to a hockey game the evening of the accident. He remembers the conditions were icy and that he had slid off the side of the road, hopped the curb and collided with a light pole. After that, his memory is foggy.
Immediately following the accident, Nick and his family knew little about the severity of his brain injury as doctors were mainly concerned with keeping him alive, but they knew there would be a large mountain to climb. That’s when they contacted Thomson Rogers’ trauma lawyer Darcy Merkur who helped Nick concentrate on his extraordinary recovery.
Tammy
Trauma Lawyer Darcy Merkur – Making a Difference
Tammy’s life changed in an instant when she was hit by a dump truck on her way to work one day. The accident caused her to bounce off the truck’s front grill and her driver’s side door leaving her with nearly zero brain activity. After awakening from a coma, it was evident the damage to her brain was severe and she would need extensive therapy to get back to being a fraction of the person she was before the horrible accident.
That’s when Tammy found trauma lawyer Darcy Merkur and Thomson Rogers. He became her ally, ensuring recovery went smoothly, and helped Tammy settle her case in just two years.
Denise Roussel
This was almost like the final process for me, was this law firm, how much they did to get Zoe to where she is today, and that’s a very well adjusted, happy, little girl.
Chris
When Chris was struck by a distracted driver, all he could think about was his wife and kids. With a broken neck, he went from being the kind of dad who never missed a hockey practice to a man too ashamed to let people see him struggle. But, when his wife contacted Thomson Rogers, things got better. Thomson Rogers put together a medical team to help Chris recover, filed a lawsuit to help pay for it, and made sure his future was taken care of. Now he’s back at hockey practice.
Thomson Rogers
When Chris was struck by a distracted driver, all he could think about was his wife and kids. With a broken neck, he went from being the kind of dad who never missed a hockey practice to a man too ashamed to let people see him struggle. But, when his wife contacted Thomson Rogers Personal Injury Lawyer Darcy Merkur, things got better. Darcy put together a medical team to help Chris recover, and made sure his financial future was taken care of. Now he’s back at hockey practice with his kids.
If you or a loved one has been involved in a serious accident, please contact Darcy Merkur at 416-868-3176 for a free consultation.
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