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What to Do If You Have Been in a Car Accident in Alberta
You're cruising down the open road, listening to your favourite song, when suddenly you experience a jarring crash. Your day just took an...
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- Sep 1
- 2 min
Top Tips for Choosing an Injury Lawyer in Edmonton
There are more than 10,000 lawyers who practice law across the province of Alberta. Choosing the right injury lawyer to represent you is...
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- Aug 1
- 3 min
5 Actions You Can Take to Support Your Injury Claim
Suffering an injury due to someone else's negligence can be a distressing experience, both physically and emotionally. An injury can...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- Jul 20
- 4 min
Submission to AIRB 2023 Annual Review
Each year, Alberta's Automobile Insurance Rate Board (AIRB) reviews submissions from its own actuary, from the board's Consumer...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- Jun 1
- 3 min
Insurance Lobby Game Plan: Enhancing Unfairness, Expanding Profit
Congratulations to Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, chosen by Albertans as our provincial government in a vote...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- May 1
- 2 min
A May Day Message from Mark McCourt
Hooray, hooray, it’s the first of May! The snow has melted, the birds are chirping, and the writ has dropped to start an Alberta election...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- Apr 4
- 3 min
Support Ordinary Albertans, Not Ontario-Based Insurance Lobbyists
The powerful auto insurance lobby was well positioned for the Alberta election that occurred four years ago, in April of 2019. The...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- Mar 3
- 4 min
People Over Profits
Alberta’s automobile insurance industry is swimming in record-high windfall profits in the billions of dollars largely due to the...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- Feb 1
- 3 min
Sorry UCP, We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Late last month, about three weeks after our firm’s New Year’s blog post calling on the United Conservative government to direct the Auto...
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Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
- Jan 4
- 2 min
Time for a New Year’s Auto Insurance Premium Haircut?
Insurance lobbyists who had deftly gerbilled their way into Jason Kenney’s inner sanctum enjoyed great success during his brief reign as...
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- Nov 10, 2022
- 3 min
Our Firm Gets Results, and We Earn Our Pay. Don’t Settle For Less!
The late, great U of A Law Prof Len Pollock QC used to warn future lawyers in his Civil Pro class that “the client is the enemy.”...
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- Sep 14, 2022
- 2 min
Court of King's Bench Ruling on PJI In Line With McCourt Legal Opinion
In the first ever civil litigation decision rendered by the Alberta Court of King's Bench (because before Queen Elizabeth II's passing...
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- Jun 13, 2022
- 4 min
Double Trouble for Auto Insurers: Two McCourts Are Better Than One!
What follows is the transcript of a successful ceremonial court application by Mark McCourt on June 10, 2022 in Alberta’s Court of...
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- Mar 1, 2022
- 2 min
Direct Compensation Property Damage: What You Need to Know
On January 1, 2022, the UCP government under Premier Jason Kenney and Finance Minister Travis Toews obediently checked off yet another...
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- Dec 15, 2021
- 2 min
Practicing Personal Injury Law in a Pandemic
COVID-19 has wreaked havoc in 2020 and 2021, killing some approximately 3,300 Albertans, 30,000 Canadians and over 5 million men, women...
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- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
COVID-19 Vaccine Passports: Become One of MLO’s VIP Clients!
In a blog post last year, McCourt Law Offices (MLO) discussed the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the associated...
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- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
Assessing the 2020 Minor Injury Regulation Amendment
Last year, in a position paper titled "Driving Change: Auto Insurance that Works", the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) lobbied Premier...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 4 min
Pre-judgment Interest on General Damages After Bill 41
Since 1984, section 4 of the Judgment Interest Act has set pre-judgment interest on non-pecuniary (general) damages at 4% per year from...
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- Jan 4, 2021
- 3 min
Submission to the Top Secret Tory Tort Deform Task Force
Dear TSTTDTF, Happy New Year! Last month, you (along with Justice Minister Kaycee Madu QC and muzzled MLA/injury lawyer Mickey Amery)...
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- Dec 15, 2020
- 4 min
Dear Travis: Stop It.
To: Treasury Board & Finance Minister Travis Toews cc. Justice Minister Kaycee Madu QC and UCP MLAs Mickey Amery, Jason Stephan, Pete...
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