David Share

Long-Term Disability Lawyer Toronto and Calgary – David Share is the President and Managing Director of Share Lawyers, a firm built entirely around disability insurance litigation. He has devoted nearly 40 years of his career to representing people whose long-term disability benefits have been denied, delayed, or terminated by their insurers.

Year Called to the Bar: 1985

When a long-term disability claim is denied, life doesn’t pause. Bills still come, your health still needs attention, and stress begins to mount. For people throughout Ontario and Alberta, that is the moment they reach out to David Share and the Share Lawyers team.

David takes pride in the representation he and his team provide to clients facing a genuinely difficult position – managing health concerns and financial pressure at the same time.

What a Long-Term Disability Lawyer Toronto Does After a Denial

An LTD denial isn’t just paperwork, it is a financial and emotional crisis at precisely the moment you and your family have the least energy to push back. For most people, disability benefits are the bridge between stability and hardship.

Insurance companies often use tactics to deny or delay claims, including:

• Arguing that your medical condition isn’t “severe enough”
• Misinterpreting policy definitions
• Demanding unnecessary medical updates or independent medical exams
• Citing missed deadlines or incomplete paperwork

Without experienced legal representation, many people give up. David Share and his team advocate on your behalf against those tactics.

The Two-Year Definition Change

Most group LTD policies carry a clause that changes the definition of disability after 24 months of benefits.

For the first two years, the test is usually whether you can perform your own occupation. After that, it shifts to whether you can perform any occupation for which you are reasonably suited by education, training, or experience.

That shift is where most denials land. A claimant who is genuinely unable to return to their previous work may still lose benefits because the insurer argues they could theoretically do something else. A Long-Term Disability Lawyer Toronto clients retain before that transition can prepare the medical and vocational evidence the policy’s own wording requires.

How Share Lawyers Helps You Move Forward

1. Free consultation. You share your story. The team listens carefully, reviews your claim documents, and identifies your strongest next step – at no cost and in confidence.

2. Case review. They analyze your policy, correspondence, and medical evidence to identify the grounds the insurer relied on.

3. Strategic action. David and the team move to counter the insurer’s reasons for denial and begin the process to enforce your rights under the policy.

4. Ongoing guidance. Throughout the process you receive updates, explanations, and support, so you are informed at every stage.

5. Resolution. Whether through settlement or court, the goal is to pursue the benefit coverage you are entitled to under your policy.

Share Lawyers operates on a contingency fee basis – no upfront costs. You pay only from the amount recovered.

Teaching the Next Generation

David is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in the Trial Advocacy Course – an appointment that puts him in the same company as Sonya Shikhman and other lawyers in your directory who teach at Ontario’s law schools.

Two Offices. Serving Ontario and Alberta

Toronto Office – Serving the GTA and All of Ontario
3438 Yonge St, Toronto, Ontario M4N 2M9
416-488-9000

Calgary Office – Serving Calgary and All of Alberta
330 5 St SW, Suite 1800, Calgary, AB T2P 0J4
587-803-3049

Whichever office you contact, you reach the same firm and the same approach.

Professional Memberships

• Law Society of Ontario
• Canadian Bar Association
• Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
• The Advocates’ Society
• American Association of Justice
• The New York Bar

Long-Term Disability Lawyer in Calgary and All of Alberta

If your long-term disability benefits have been denied, delayed, or cut off, you do not have to navigate the process alone.

Email David Share today or call the office nearest you – Toronto 416-488-9000 or Calgary 587-803-3049  for a free consultation. No upfront costs.

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