Adam K. Wagman
416-361-0988
"My goal is to help people who truly need help. Being a personal injury lawyer is the best way that I can think of to accomplish this goal. I have the rare pleasure of leaving my clients at the end of a case in a much better position than when they first met with me. It is an extremely rewarding profession."
Adam Wagman is the managing partner at Howie, Sacks & Henry. Adam was admitted to The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1996. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. (Mathematics) and from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
He is a member of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates' Society and he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association in 2008. Adam was President of the Ontario Association of Community Based Boards for Acquired Brain Injury Services, and spent 10 years on the Board of Directors of Peel Halton Acquired Brain Injury Services. He was one of the founding members of the Board of Directors of the Brain Injury Society of Toronto.
In 2008, Adam was honoured with the Ontario Brain Injury Association's Professional Award. In 2010, Adam was included in the Lexpert Directory as a "Leading practitioner" in personal injury law.
Adam's practice is devoted to personal injury litigation, accident benefits claims and other disability and insurance litigation.
Areas of Practice
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
Bar Admissions
- Ontario, 1994
Education
- University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- LL.B. - 1994
- The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- B.A. - 1990
- Major: Mathematics
Representative Cases
- Gostick v. Squance, 2007 ONCA 674 (Court of Appeal 2007)
- Harroun (Litigation Guardian of) v. Turriff, 50 O.R. (3d) 634 (Court of Appeal 2000)
- Merg Kong v. Personal Insurance Company of Canada, FSCO P06-00007 (2008)
- Adabi Ghomi v. Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, FSCO P00-00024 (2001)
- Jean Marc Serret v. Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund, FSCO A07-001067 (2007)
- Zeppieri v. Liberty Mutual, FSCO A96–000313 (1998)
- MacAulay v. General Accident, A96–001971 (1998)
- Dipietro v. Allstate, FSCO A97–001522 (1998)
- Mangat v. Non-Marine Underwriters, FSCO A99–000182 (2000)
- Cole v. Allstate Insurance Company of Canada, FSCO A99–000366 (2000)
Classes/Seminars
- The Advocates Society – Civil Litigation Skills Certificate Program: Working with Experts: Trends & Tactics, , May 18, 2011
- Your First Civil Trial Conference, Ontario Bar Association, February 25, 2011
- Medico/Legal Society of Toronto – It's Raining CATS and Dogs, February 22, 2011
- Osgoode – Medical/Legal Course Instructor, February 10, 2011
- Osgoode Professional Development – The New SABS and FSCO Arbitrations of Personal Injury Claims, September 17, 2010
- Recent FSCO Cases Continue to Make an Impact Under the New SABS
- The Tricks of the Trade, January 22, 2010
- Advancing & Defining Economic Loss Claims in Uncertain Times
Honors and Awards
- Ontario Brain Injury Association, Professional Award, 2008
- Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory - Leading Practitioner in Personal Injury, 2010 - 2011
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Canadian Bar Association, 1996 - Present
- Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, 1996 - Present
- The Advocates Society, 1996 - Present
- Toronto Lawyers Association, 1996 - Present
- Ontario Bar Association, 1996 - Present
- Medical-Legal Society of Toronto, 1996 - Present
- Brain Injury Society of Toronto (BIST)
- Legislative committees on Insurance Reform
- The Law Society of Upper Canada
Pro Bono Activities
- Board of Directors, Peel Halton Acquired Brain Injury Service, 1996 - 2007
- Board of Directors, Brain Injury Society of Toronto, 2003 - 2008
- Past President, Ontario Association of Community Based Boards for Acquired Brain Injury Services
- Board of Directors, Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
