Sommers & Roth Professional Corporation is a leader in the areas of obstetrical negligence, medical malpractice, products liability and general personal injury litigation. What follows is a selection of some of the jurisprudence generated by our litigation.

Please note that this website also includes news stories from the Toronto Star and The Lawyers Weekly relating to a selection of our cases.

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Crawford (Litigation guardian of) v. Penney et al., [2004] O.J. No. 3669 (C.A.) dismissing appeal from Crawford (Litigation guardian of) v. Penney et al., [2003] O.J. No. 89 (S.C.J.)

Imperial Tobacco Limited, Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc. - v. - Ljubisa Spasic, as Estate Trustee of the Estate of Mirjana Spasic [2001] (Ont.) (Civil) (28174).

Spasic Estate v. Imperial Tobacco Ltd. (2000), 49 O.R. (3d) 699 (C.A.) rev'g [1998] O.J. No. 4906 (S.C.J.).

MacLean v. Wallace, [1999] O.J. No. 3220 (S.C.J.).

Chow (Litigation guardian of) v. Wellesley Hospital, [1999] O.J. No. 279 (S.C.J.).

Chrappa v. Ohm (1996), 29 O.R. (3d) 222 (Gen. Div.), aff'd (1998), 38 O.R. (3d) 651 (C.A.).

Hock (Next friend of) v. Hospital for Sick Children [1995] O.J. No. 1104 (Gen. Div.), aff’d and rev’d in part [1998] O.J. No. 336 (C.A.).

Foster v. Citadel General Assurance Co. (1997), 36 O.R. (3d) 750 (Gen. Div.).

Ing (Litigation Guardian of) v. Guest, [1993] O.J. No. 1818 (Gen. Div.).

Giannone v. Weinberg, [1986] O.J. No. 369 (H.C.J.), damages varied (1989), 68 O.R. (2d) 767 (C.A.), leave to appeal dismissed (February 8, 1990), S.C.C. Doc. No. 21573.

Branche v. MacArthur (1986), 56 O.R. (2d) 71 (Div. Ct.).

Soldwisch v. Toronto Western Hospital (1983), 43 O.R. (2d) 449 (Div. Ct.).

Demeter v. Occidental Life Ins. Co. (1979), 26 O.R. (2d) 391 (Div. Ct.).

Yepremian v. Scarborough General Hospital (1978), 20 O.R. (2d) 510 (H.C.J.), rev’d in part (1980), 28 O.R. (2d) 494 (C.A.), leave to S.C.C. granted. See application for approval of settlement in Yepremian v. Scarborough General Hospital (No. 2) (1981), 31 O.R. (2d) 384 (H.C.J.).