About Maria
Maria Damiano is a lawyer at the firm Harte Law Professional Corporation in Ontario. Since 2003 Maria’s practice has been restricted exclusively to the area of medical malpractice assisting victims of serious medical harm across Ontario and Canada. Maria has been actively involved in several high profile mass torts including litigation involving 225 patients of gynaecologist Dr. Errol Wai-Ping and 99 patients of former gynaecologist Dr. Richard Austin.Maria was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2002 and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. In her last term at Osgoode Hall, Maria did an exchange program at the University of Bologna Law School in Italy, the oldest law school in the Western world.From 2012 to 2014 Maria was the section chair of the Ontario Trial Lawyer Association’s Medical Malpractice Section. Maria was on the Board of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association from 2012 to 2023 and is past President of the Association.Maria has been a contributor to various legal journals including the Advocates Quarterly and the Annual Review of Civil Litigation (2017 and 2021 editions) published by Thomson Reuters on the topic of medical malpractice. In addition, Maria is a regular speaker on the issue of medical malpractice including for the Ontario Bar Association Health Law section, the Mount Sinai Hospital Obstetrical Malpractice Survival Guide; and the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association. Maria is currently an instructor at the Osgoode Hall Trial Advocacy course. She has been recognized in L’Expert and Best Lawyers as a specialist in medical negligence.
Maria Damiano is a lawyer at the firm Harte Law Professional Corporation in Ontario. Since 2003 Maria’s practice has been restricted exclusively to the area of medical malpractice assisting victims of serious medical harm across Ontario and Canada. Maria has been actively involved in several high profile mass torts including litigation involving 225 patients of gynaecologist Dr. Errol Wai-Ping and 99 patients of former gynaecologist Dr. Richard Austin.Maria was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2002 and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. In her last term at Osgoode Hall, Maria did an exchange program at the University of Bologna Law School in Italy, the oldest law school in the Western world.From 2012 to 2014 Maria was the section chair of the Ontario Trial Lawyer Association’s Medical Malpractice Section. Maria was on the Board of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association from 2012 to 2023 and is past President of the Association.Maria has been a contributor to various legal journals including the Advocates Quarterly and the Annual Review of Civil Litigation (2017 and 2021 editions) published by Thomson Reuters on the topic of medical malpractice. In addition, Maria is a regular speaker on the issue of medical malpractice including for the Ontario Bar Association Health Law section, the Mount Sinai Hospital Obstetrical Malpractice Survival Guide; and the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association. Maria is currently an instructor at the Osgoode Hall Trial Advocacy course. She has been recognized in L’Expert and Best Lawyers as a specialist in medical negligence.
Maria Damiano is a lawyer at the firm Harte Law Professional Corporation in Ontario. Since 2003 Maria’s practice has been restricted exclusively to the area of medical malpractice assisting victims of serious medical harm across Ontario and Canada. Maria has been actively involved in several high profile mass torts including litigation involving 225 patients of gynaecologist Dr. Errol Wai-Ping and 99 patients of former gynaecologist Dr. Richard Austin.
Maria was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2002 and is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. In her last term at Osgoode Hall, Maria did an exchange program at the University of Bologna Law School in Italy, the oldest law school in the Western world.
From 2012 to 2014 Maria was the section chair of the Ontario Trial Lawyer Association’s Medical Malpractice Section. Maria was on the Board of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association from 2012 to 2023 and is past President of the Association.
Maria has been a contributor to various legal journals including the Advocates Quarterly and the Annual Review of Civil Litigation (2017 and 2021 editions) published by Thomson Reuters on the topic of medical malpractice. In addition, Maria is a regular speaker on the issue of medical malpractice including for the Ontario Bar Association Health Law section, the Mount Sinai Hospital Obstetrical Malpractice Survival Guide; and the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association. Maria is currently an instructor at the Osgoode Hall Trial Advocacy course. She has been recognized in L’Expert and Best Lawyers as a specialist in medical negligence.
