Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer

Lalande Personal Injury & Disability Lawyers

Matt Lalande is a Hamilton personal injury lawyer with more than 20 years of experience representing people whose lives have been changed by serious injury, loss, or disability. Based in downtown Hamilton, his work focuses on catastrophic injury claims, wrongful death cases, injuries involving children, and denied long-term disability benefits.

Year Called to the Bar: 2004

Matt Lalande is the principal of Lalande Personal Injury & Disability Lawyers, located at 1 King Street West in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, with a second office in Burlington.

He comes from a family of trial lawyers and judges practising since 1973, and has spent his entire career representing injured people – never insurance companies.

Get in touch with a personal injury lawyer who will fight for your rights and pursue the full compensation you are entitled to under Ontario law.

A Deliberately Small Caseload

Matt takes a limited number of serious files each year, and he remains the principal lawyer on every case he accepts. Other members of the team may assist, but your file is not passed off.

That constraint is the point. A Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer handling Catastrophic injury and disability files run for years, involve extensive medical evidence, and turn on details that only surface when the same lawyer has carried the file from the beginning.

A Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer Published in the Field

Matt Lalande is a co-author of Disability Insurance Law in Canada, a text used by lawyers and judges across the country in long-term disability litigation.

He is a former director of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, and has written or spoken for more than 100 publications and organizations, including the Ontario Orthopaedic Association, OTLA, local bar organizations, The Lawyer’s Daily, First Reference, and the Globe and Mail’s Leadership Lab.

Matt has been named to The Best Lawyers in Canada™ for Personal Injury Litigation every year since 2018.

Practice Focus – Five Areas, Handled Deeply

Matt’s practice is deliberately narrow. He accepts:

• Serious Personal Injury – traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, severe burns, complex and crush fractures, degloving and disfigurement
• Wrongful Death Claims – representing families under the Family Law Act
• Injured Children – child brain injury, child pedestrian and child cycling claims
• Denied long-term and short-term disability – including Canada Life, Manulife and Sun Life denials
• Employment Law – severance review, termination for cause, executive and professional terminations

Why Long-Term Disability Denials Need Their Own Approach

A denied LTD claim is not an injury claim with different paperwork. It is a contract dispute, and it turns on policy wording.

The most common turning point comes at the two-year mark, when most policies shift from “own occupation” to “any occupation” – a change that ends benefits for many claimants who are still genuinely unable to return to their own work. Denials also arrive on grounds of alleged pre-existing conditions, insufficient objective findings, or surveillance.

Each denial letter sets out specific grounds. Reading those against the actual policy language is where Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer starts on an LTD file.

A Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer for Injured Children

Claims for injured children follow different timelines and rules.

Limitation periods do not begin running while a claimant is a minor. Settlements involving children require court approval. And the central difficulty is that the full impact of a serious childhood injury – on education, independence, and future earning capacity – often cannot be assessed for years.

Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer Serving Burlington and All of Ontario

Matt Lalande practises from downtown Hamilton at 1 King Street West, Suite 1705, with a second office at 901 Guelph Line in Burlington, serving clients across the Golden Horseshoe and throughout Ontario.

Free Consultations

Matt offers free, no-obligation consultations to anyone in Hamilton, the Golden Horseshoe, and across Ontario – in person, by phone, or virtually.

He works on a contingency fee basis: no money up front, with fees payable only if compensation is recovered.

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ontario
• Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (former director)

Talk to a Hamilton Personal Injury Lawyer Matt Lalande Today

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