Maria Damiano

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 has been on the Board of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association since 2012 and is currently President of the Association.

Maria has been a contributor to various legal journals including the Advocates Quarterly and the Annual Review of Civil Litigation on the topic of medical malpractice. In addition, Maria has spoken on many occasions for the Ontario Bar Association Health Law section, the Canadian Obstetrical Malpractice Conference and the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association on the issue of medical malpractice.