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Lies, Damn Lies and Insurance Lobby Talking Points
For the past few years (basically since the Jason Kenney administration sent car insurance premiums skyrocketing by removing the rate...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Jan 2, 20243 min read


Car Crash Injury? Don’t Delay, Call Today!
You've just been injured by a reckless driver and have taken photos of that driver's license, vehicle registration, and insurance pink...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Dec 1, 20232 min read


Long-Term Effects of Whiplash After a Car Accident
It takes only seconds for a peaceful car ride to turn into a catastrophe. In 2021, over 8,000 people experienced serious injuries from...

Yellow Pages Admin
Nov 7, 20232 min read


Open Letter to the Justice Minister of Alberta
To the Honourable Mickey K. Amery KC, Minister of Justice: Mickey, it's been abundantly evident for the past two decades that the path...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Oct 10, 20232 min read


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...

Yellow Pages Admin
Sep 29, 20233 min read


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...

Yellow Pages Admin
Sep 1, 20232 min read


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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Aug 1, 20233 min read


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...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Jul 20, 20234 min read


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...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Jun 1, 20233 min read


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...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
May 1, 20232 min read


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...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Apr 4, 20233 min read


People Over Profits
Alberta’s automobile insurance industry is swimming in record-high windfall profits in the billions of dollars largely due to the...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Mar 3, 20234 min read


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...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Feb 1, 20233 min read


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...
Mark McCourt - Founder of McCourt Law Offices
Jan 4, 20232 min read


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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Nov 10, 20223 min read


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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Sep 14, 20222 min read


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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Jun 13, 20224 min read


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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Mar 1, 20222 min read


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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Dec 15, 20212 min read


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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Sep 1, 20213 min read
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