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 has been teaching at Mohawk College since the inception of the paralegal program in 2014 and created and teaches Legal Research and Writing and Statutory Accident Benefits. She received her LLM at Osgoode Hall Law School, and she is a member of the Hamilton Law Association and Ontario Trial Lawyers Association.

Tipping v. Coseco Insurance Company, 2021 ONSC 5295 (Div. Ct.)

In this case, the Applicant sought judicial review of a Licence Appeal Tribunal decision and reconsideration barring him from proceeding with an appeal to the LAT due to his failure to attend insurer examinations for catastrophic impairment. The issue before the Divisional Court was whether the Applicant could proceed to judicial review given he had not exhausted his right to appeal…

Sadat v. TD General Insurance Company, 2018 FSCO A14-000677