Alexander Michael Voudouris

Alexander Voudouris is a certified specialist in litigation with Pace Law Firm. Alex obtained a Specialized Honours B.A. from York University and his Law Degree from the University of Windsor while also attending at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School. He also Clerked for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal for the Northwest Territories. Since being called to the Bar in 1991 Alex’s practice has been in the Personal Injury field. For the first 18 years of his practice Alex represented numerous Canadian and American insurance companies including Allstate, Co-operators, Coseco, ING/Intact, RBC, Monnex/TD and Auto Owners (Michigan). For the past 11 years, he have exclusively represented accident victims. Alex has significant trial, arbitration and appeal experience in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, the License Appeal Tribunal, and the Worker Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal.

Alex has represented clients in a broad range of cases including serious brain injuries, paraplegia, tetraplegia, chronic pain, fatalities, psychiatric and orthopaedic injuries, together with catastrophic impairments as defined in the SABS. Some of his most notable and precedent setting cases include: Opuku v Pal (ONCA) (opened the door to rescind the first 10 years of AB settlements at FSCO); Igbokwe v HB Group (ONCA) (applying the AB settlement regulation to AB Claims advanced in Court); Thornhill v Shadid (OSCJ) (the first decision dealing with Minimum Maintenance Standards under the Municipal Act for snow removal); Leone and State Farm (FSCO Appeal) (requiring FSCO Mediations to occur within 60 days of the Application for Mediation); Parveen and Aviva (FSCO Appeal) (allowing for the rescinding of all FSCO settlements from 2002 – 2012); and for example, Scarlett v Belair (Divisional Court) (the first decision dealing with the MIG). Alex intervened on behalf of OTLA in the Sovereign General and Abyan case involving the constitutional validity of chronic pain being subject to the MIG, and Tomec v Economical before the Court of Appeal for Ontario that established SABS limitation periods were in fact based on discoverability of a cause of action.