Toronto Health Lawyers
Our team of health law lawyers balance extensive knowledge with strategic advocacy while defending our professional clients. We represent health professionals in all legal arenas, including regulated colleges, tribunals and courts.
We have extensive experience defending health professionals with health law matters across Ontario throughout every stage of the regulatory process by assisting with complaints, investigations, and disciplinary proceedings. We also defend health professionals in civil and criminal actions and routinely represent corporations who employ regulated health professionals.
How We Assist Regulated Health Professionals with Health Law Matters
We work extensively with regulated health professionals on various health law related regulatory issues, including the following:
- Assisting health professionals respond to patient complaints;
- Responding to various inquiries, including defending health professionals at discipline hearings and quality assurance committee (“QAC”) inquiries;
- Representing health professionals in appeals before the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board (“HPARB”) (e.g. where a decision of the Inquiries, Complaints, and Reports Committee (“ICRC”) has been made);
- Navigating standard of practice issues, billing and insurance issues, record keeping, privacy breaches, and public health inquiries;
- Working with health professionals to respond to allegations of professional misconduct;
- Assisting with fitness to practice matters;
- Facilitating the process when health professionals are required to take educational courses, including through undertakings and Specified Continuing Education or Remediation Programs (“SCERP”);
- Representing health professionals with insurance delisting issues with insurers;
- Assisting health professionals with registration issues and licence applications, including working with foreign-trained health professionals;
- Reporting past history, including criminal charges and findings of guilt to regulated health colleges;
- Assisting health professionals with hospital matters including hospital privileges, Medical Advisory Committee and hospital Board proceedings; and
- Advising health professionals on employment, business, and contract issues related to their staff or other health professionals, including drafting and reviewing employment agreements.
Josh Koziebrocki is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in Health law.
Koziebrocki Law is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada for its work in Professional Malpractice Law and Health Care Law. The firm also appears in the 2021 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory for its work defending health professionals with medical negligence matters.