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Ken acts exclusively for people who have suffered medical negligence. He helps patients to successfully pursue claims against doctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital employees, clinics and other health care institutions in Canada. Based on his track record at trial, Ken is frequently retained on complex or contentious malpractice litigation matters by other lawyers to act as co-counsel to take these cases to trial.
Ken was voted by his peers as a leading lawyer in the area of medical negligence in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory ®. Ken is diligently building a reputation within the medical negligence arena in Canada as a dependable lawyer, trial counsel, negotiator and personal legal advisor with a rare sense of reality. Regardless of the matter under review, Ken provides clients and other lawyers who may engage his services with practical strategic options to achieve the best outcome.
In the earlier years of his practice, Ken worked at Canada’s first national law firm McCarthy Tetrault LLP defending doctors who had been sued for medical malpractice. This experience helps him strategize to position clients to their greatest advantage and achieve their best outcome.
Before becoming a lawyer, Ken was selected as an All-Canadian in both basketball and academics at University of British Columbia. After his university career he played basketball professionally in Europe for two years. His competitiveness and enthusiasm for what he does now benefit patients and co-counsel who may be faced with a difficult fight against well-funded health care defendants.
* Past results obtained are not necessarily indicators of future results and the amount recovered and other litigation outcomes will vary according to the facts in individual cases.
For over 25 years Lori has acted for patients, a broad range of health care providers, advocacy organizations and decision-makers across the Canadian health care delivery system. Lori brings a broad perspective to her work, careful attention to the needs of her clients and a passion for pursuing legal issues and cases that help to make access to health care safer, more accessible and more accountable.
Acting for patients and their families in medical negligence claims against physicians and other health care providers. Lori’s experience includes injuries arising from: delayed diagnosis of cancer and other serious conditions; emergency care; failures relating to HIV testing and counselling; gynecological surgery and other reproductive health issues; labour and delivery; medication errors; orthopedic surgery; and post-operative infection.
Lori has experience before administrative tribunals (including the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, Health Services Appeal and Review Board and Consent and Capacity Board), all levels of Ontario courts and the Supreme Court of Canada, and with class proceedings. She is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Master of Science in Healthcare Quality Program at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and of the Advocates’ Circle of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Past community engagement includes serving as a director for Hassle Free Clinic and COTA (Community Occupational Therapists and Associates), and as a director and President of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network.
Lori’s experience acting for patients and their families in medical negligence claims against physicians and other health care providers includes injuries arising from: delayed diagnosis of cancer and other serious conditions; emergency care; failures relating to HIV testing and counselling; gynecological surgery and other reproductive health issues; labour and delivery; medication errors; orthopedic surgery; and post-operative infection.
Lori was counsel to an infant and family in a successful medical negligence case arising from the infant’s avoidable HIV infection following physician failure to provide prenatal HIV testing and counselling.
Lori was counsel to the plaintiffs in a medical negligence trial arising from gynecological surgery. The case succeeded on the basis that the surgeon had proceeded without consent.
Lori has had a career-long interest in, and engagement with, public health laws and practice. She is a co-author of Public Health Law and Practice in Ontario: The Health Protection and Promotion Act: Co-authored this 2008 text with Jane Speakman and Rod Blake, described as a “ground-breaking treatise” of public health law in Ontario by Dr. Sheela Basrur, former Chief Medical Officer of Health for Ontario, and former Chair of the Health Protection Appeal and Review Board (now part of the Health Services Appeal and Review Board), responsible for ruling on appeals of orders issued by public health authorities under Ontario’s Health Protection and Promotion Act.
Simons et al. v. Minister of Public Safety et al.: Lori is counsel for a former prisoner of the federal penitentiary system together with the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, Prisoners with HIV/AIDS Support Action Network, Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network and CATIE, in an ongoing Charter challenge against the federal government for failing to provide inmates of federal penitentiaries with access to sterile injection equipment as essential health care to protect against HIV and Hepatitis C transmission and other health problems.
Olivieri v. Commission of the European Communities et al.: Lori was counsel to a clinical researcher and scientist in an application for judicial review before the European Court of Justice to challenge the licensing of a drug as based on inaccurate and incomplete information from the manufacturer, the first clinical researcher to succeed in obtaining standing in such a matter in Europe.
UNAIDS (the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS): Lori prepared the analysis of legal and human rights issues used by the UNAIDS Expert Panel on HIV Testing in UN Peacekeeping Operations to inform the UN’s HIV testing policy for peacekeeping forces.
AIDS2006 Toronto Local Host: Lori was counsel to organizers of the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto, successfully challenging discriminatory self-disclosure requirements in Citizenship and Immigration Canada procedures affecting people living with HIV/AIDS and other communicable and chronic illnesses.
R. v. Cuerrier: Lori was counsel to the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network as an intervenor with standing before the Supreme Court of Canada in the first Supreme Court case to consider criminal responsibility arising from alleged non-disclosure of HIV status between sexual partners.
Olivieri v. Commission of the European Communities et al.: Lori was counsel to a clinical researcher and scientist in an application for judicial review before the European Court of Justice to challenge the licensing of a drug as based on inaccurate and incomplete information from the manufacturer. This was the first clinical researcher to succeed in obtaining standing in such a matter in Europe.
Federal Commission of Inquiry into the Contamination of Canada’s Blood Supply with HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis (the “Krever Commission”): Lori was counsel to the HIV T-Group (Blood Transfused) before the Krever Commission, and in related applications for judicial review seeking to prevent the Commissioner from publishing his report. The HIV-T Group’s position at the inquiry was that the federal government had failed to regulate blood as a drug under Canada’s Food and Drugs Act, an important focus of the Commissioner’s final findings and recommendations.
Lori has acted for patients seeking access to health care, including appeals under Ontario’s Health Insurance Act to challenge refusals to fund out-of-country treatment.
Lori advises patients, health care providers, health research organizations and other health system participants to assist them in navigating the complex legal framework that governs health care delivery and clinical research involving patients, and to advocate for and implement meaningful system changes on a wide variety of matters.
Lori was a member of expert task groups engaged by the Health Professions Regulatory Advisory Council to undertake a comprehensive review of psychotherapy and make recommendations for the regulation of psychotherapy in Ontario and to consider the need for an expanded scope of practice for nurse practitioners in Ontario.
Lori was counsel to a community-based hospital and two different medical staff associations in response to directions issued by Ontario’s Health Services Restructuring Commission. In one case, the mandate included negotiating the transfer of all hospital programs and services.
Lori was counsel to a coalition of major national associations of health care providers, to provide an opinion on constitutional and other legal options to mandate national standards in the delivery of health care in Canada.
Lori advises clients, including patients, health care providers and other health system participants on their rights and responsibilities to safeguard the privacy of personal health information and related matters.
Lori has represented patients and health care providers in actions for breach of confidence and in proceedings before Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner.
Lori is a strong advocates of the right of patients to exercise self-determination in medical decision-making, including acting for clients before the Consent and Capacity Board.
Charron v. CRL: Lori was counsel to the plaintiffs in a personal injury action against a Cuban resort and Ontario tour companies arising out of a death while scuba-diving. The defendants argued that Ontario did not have jurisdiction over the plaintiffs’ claim. The plaintiffs succeeded in arguing that the Ontario courts could and should take jurisdiction in the matter. The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision released in 2012 is a leading authority on this issue.
Her clients and co-counsel benefit from Jillian’s responsiveness and perseverance, as well as from her ability to skillfully distill complex medical information in order to best advance her clients’ interests. Jillian’s familiarity with all facets of the health care system also equips her to assist health care consumers on matters involving consent, privacy and access to care.
Jillian represents her clients in motions, trials and appeals at all levels of court, as well as in hearings, inquests and proceedings before the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the Office of the Chief Coroner, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and the Health Services Appeal and Review Board.
As the past Chair of the Medical Malpractice Group of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, Jillian is a frequent lecturer and speaker on issues relating to patient rights, advocacy and the intersections between law and medicine.
Jillian has developed a nuanced appreciation for the often overlapping legal, social, financial and personal needs of individuals and families affected by medical negligence. She uses her skills in both advocacy and negotiation to achieve the best possible results for her clients, in or out of the courtroom. A devoted proponent of our publicly funded health care system, Jillian’s long history of community involvement with organizations like Planned Parenthood Toronto, Street Health Community Nursing and the Massey Centre for Women reflects her commitment to safeguarding and championing universal access to health care.
Simons v. Canada (2018): Jillian Evans and Lori Stoltz successfully resisted the Correctional Service of Canada’s motion for access to the applicants’ experts’ privileged file contents in this Charter litigation involving federal prisoners’ access to health care and harm reduction services.
Way v. Ahmad (2017): As trial counsel, Jillian obtained judgment for the family of a man who passed away following surgery due to untreated sleep apnea.
C.P. v. Y.H. (2017): Jillian successfully appealed a decision of the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee of the CPSO, with the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board finding that the investigation into C.P.’s complaint had been inadequate and returning it to the Committee for further investigation.
Rycroft v. Chen (2017): Jillian succeeded at trial on behalf of the family of a woman who passed away following an endoscopic procedure.
Oakley v. Guirguis (2014) : Jillian defeated the defendant physician’s motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ lawsuit on the grounds of an expiry of the limitation period, successfully arguing that Ms. Oakley’s statute of limitations did not start to run until she first learned of the alleged error.
Frazer v. Haukioja (2008): Jillian was co-counsel at trial for a man who developed avascular necrosis and psychiatric injuries after an ankle fracture was left untreated by the defendant emergency physician. Damages of $1.8 million were awarded to the Plaintiffs at trial, which were upheld on appeal.
Geddes v. Bloom (2008): Jillian was counsel for the plaintiff at trial in an action against a radiologist alleging a failure to diagnose a fractured jaw.
Medeiros v. Bederman (2006): Jillian successfully obtained judgment for the plaintiff at trial against a plastic surgeon.
As co-counsel in a historical institutional negligence action involving allegations of decades of physical and sexual abuse, Jillian assisted her clients in securing a substantial settlement.
Jillian obtained settlement for the family of a young boy who died after an attendance at the emergency department failed to identify a foreign body in his windpipe.
Jillian negotiated a significant settlement for the family of a man who passed away following a late diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Jillian successfully resolved litigation on behalf of a man and his young daughters after their mother died as a result of a post-partum hemorrhage, obtaining a sizable settlement on the family’s behalf.

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