Samia Alam

Called to the bar in 2009 and having successfully passed the Ontario, Michigan and US multistate bar exams, Samia M. Alam is a contract lawyer for plaintiff personal injury law firms in the Hamilton and surrounding areas with a special focus on catastrophic impairment claims. She also has been teaching at Mohawk College since the inception of the paralegal program in 2014 and teaches Legal Research and Writing, Statutory Accident Benefits and Tribunals Practice and Procedure. She is received her LL.M at Osgoode Hall Law School, and she is a member of the Hamilton Law Association and Ontario Trial Lawyer's Association.

Yatar v. TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, 2024 SCC 8

This case stemmed from a motor vehicle collision in 2010. Three denial letters with respect to Income Replacement Benefits (IRBs) and housekeeping benefits were sent to the insured throughout 2011 but no dispute resolution forms were attached to the last two denials. As part of the FSCO process, the insured applied for mediation which concluded by January 2014 giving the insured an extension of 90 days following the mediator’s report.

Coban v. Allstate Insurance, 2023 CanLII 40118 (ON LAT)

The applicant was involved in a motor vehicle collision on October 6, 2018. He was deemed catastrophically impaired due to being rendered a paraplegic as a result of the collision.