Foster Injury Law
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One of 119 law firms listed in Barrie, and one of 22 handling Personal Injury.
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Foster Injury Law is a plaintiff-side personal injury practice in Ontario, started by Lane Foster. It acts for people facing the legal and insurance fallout of a serious accident or a denied disability claim. The firm doesn't take other kinds of work: its files are personal injury and disability matters, from motor vehicle claims and catastrophic injury litigation to long-term disability disputes.
Barrie is home to the firm's main office, and there's a satellite office in Kitchener. It has also helped clients in many other Ontario municipalities, among them Collingwood, Midland, Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie. Meetings can happen in person, by phone or over video, whichever the case calls for.
Lane Foster is the firm's principal lawyer, and Lane's practice centres on litigation: when a matter can't be resolved, it's pushed through discoveries, motions, mediations, arbitrations and trial. Lane appears regularly in trials and in statutory accident benefits arbitrations, before both the Licence Appeal Tribunal and the Superior Court of Justice.
The support team includes Victoria Marrone, a senior law clerk with more than a decade spent only at Ontario personal injury firms, and two licensed paralegals, Laura Blackshaw and Brittany Sakai, who've each worked in personal injury throughout their careers. Clients deal with their own lawyer directly, starting at the first stage of the file. Your first consultation costs nothing, and the firm works on contingency, so there are no fees unless your claim is resolved successfully.
Practice areas
Motorcycle and brain injury claims
When an insurer disputes who caused a motorcycle crash, the firm brings in engineers to reconstruct the collision and prove fault in brain injury cases. For questions that need specialist input, it also works with medical specialists, vocational professionals, accountants and future-care professionals.
Cyclists and e-bike riders
Foster Injury Law acts for cyclists hurt anywhere in Ontario, and for families bringing claims after a fatal bicycle or e-bike crash. In one file, a forensic engineer traced a client's mechanical bike failure back to poor maintenance.
Assault injuries
In a serious assault case, the firm doesn't stop at the attacker. It looks at who controlled the premises, whether the risk was foreseeable, what insurance exists, and who made the security decisions that might've lowered the odds of violence.
Spinal cord injuries and paralysis
The firm takes spinal cord injury and paralysis claims from across the province, including paraplegia, tetraplegia, incomplete injuries and ASIA D classifications.
Occupiers' liability
Beyond slip and falls, the firm handles other claims under Ontario's occupiers' liability law, including dog bites and dog attacks.
Accident benefits
Under Ontario's Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule, the firm takes on refused treatment, income replacement disputes, attendant care and catastrophic impairment applications, and it appears at the Licence Appeal Tribunal.
Long-term disability
Lane Foster also acts on long-term disability benefits that have been denied or cut off, work that often runs alongside accident benefits files.
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Free consultationHow Foster Injury Law works
Foster Injury Law is a litigation-focused practice, and its work rests on three things: preparing each file carefully, advocating professionally, and keeping in direct touch with clients for the whole legal process. The firm works from the view that insurance companies will put numerous barriers between an injured person and fair compensation, so it takes the advocate's role seriously and sets out to protect clients from the harsh system it operates in. Alongside pursuing compensation, its commitment is to guide clients with compassion and understanding.
Reported cases
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Graul v. Kansal, 2022 ONSC 1958
Lane Foster was one of three counsel for the plaintiff, alongside Gary Will and Brennan Kahler, after a December 18, 2017 head-on crash. The court found the defendants liable and wrote that the plaintiff was right and the defence entirely wrong.
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Legree v. Origlieri, 2021 ONSC 7650
Mark Elkin and Lane Foster acted for the plaintiff, hurt in an August 19, 2016 collision in Orangeville. The court dismissed the defence motion arguing the plaintiff's injuries fell short of the Insurance Act threshold, awarded damages that included future health care costs, and dismissed the remaining claims.
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Pastink et al v. 1190393 Ontario Limited et al., 2023 ONSC 6037
Lane Foster (named in the decision as L. Foster) acted for the plaintiffs in a claim arising from an October 24, 2019 altercation outside a bar. The bar asked for summary judgment, and that motion was dismissed.
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Hardwick v Intact Insurance Company, 2023 CanLII 40077 (ON LAT)
Lane Foster was among counsel for the applicant, injured in a November 21, 2017 crash. The adjudicator found the applicant entitled to an ongoing income replacement benefit from October 1, 2020 with interest, ordered the insurer to pay an award, and refused one physiotherapy treatment plan.
Decisions where the firm's lawyers appeared as counsel, from public court records. Past cases don't predict future results.
Milestones & recognition
- Named the 2026 Community Votes Kitchener-Waterloo Platinum Winner for Personal Injury Law and Lawyers.
In the community
- Lane Foster writes public guides and legal commentary on Ontario accident benefits law, covering topics such as the rules for minor injuries, when an impairment counts as catastrophic, and the threshold a serious injury has to meet.
Affiliations & connections
- Ontario Trial Lawyers Association: Lane Foster is a member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association.
- The Advocates' Society: The Advocates' Society is one of the professional organizations Lane Foster belongs to.
- Simcoe County Law Association: Lane Foster is a member of the Simcoe County Law Association.
- Ontario Brain Injury Association: Lane Foster is a member of the Ontario Brain Injury Association, and the association's directory carries a listing for the firm.
Who handles what
Offices 2
The neighbourhood
Foster Injury Law's main office is in Barrie, and the firm works regularly with people from nearby communities. The Kitchener office is at 300-72 Victoria Street South, a property in the City of Kitchener that's listed on the Ontario Heritage Act Register. The building was designated under bylaw 2024-118, and the register records its historical function as a furniture manufacturing facility, with adaptive reuse noted as a special characteristic.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Foster Injury Law pay referral fees to lawyers and paralegals who send it injury files?
- Foster Injury Law welcomes referrals from lawyers and paralegals whose practices lie outside personal injury, and it pays referral fees at the maximum level Law Society guidelines allow. Referring professionals can also get progress reports on the case at whatever intervals they choose.
- Does Foster Injury Law cap its contingency fee at 33%, and are disbursements only charged when the case ends?
- Foster Injury Law's fees usually run from 30% to a cap of 33% of the case's value. Nearly all of its personal injury files are taken on contingency, with the terms set out in a written retainer before the work starts, and disbursements are charged when the case ends. (Fees as of September 2026.)
- My Desjardins long-term disability claim was denied. Does Foster Injury Law handle Desjardins denials?
- Yes. Across Ontario, Foster Injury Law regularly helps people challenge and overturn long-term disability denials from Desjardins. It also has experience with benefits cut off by other insurers, including Manulife, Sun Life and Canada Life.
- I can't travel after my injury. Will Foster Injury Law come to my home or hospital room?
- Yes, if needed. Meetings can be at the office by appointment or online, and when a client can't travel, the firm can come to the person's home or hospital bedside. For Barrie residents, its long-term disability lawyers will also meet at home when necessary.
- Can I reach Foster Injury Law at night or on a weekend?
- Foster Injury Law takes calls and answers inquiries around the clock, seven days a week.
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