Tort Rights Eroded for Victims of Auto Accidents
Drunk, distracted and dangerous drivers – sit back and relax. Why?
Because you don’t have to fully pay for your mistakes. The insurance companies that hire lawyers for you and defend you in court have spent millions of our premium dollars lobbying the government of Ontario to take away the rights of the people you injure when you are driving. Because of these efforts, the people you injure are not entitled to receive full compensation for their losses.
http://otlablog.com/tort- rights-eroded-victims-auto- accidents/
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Medical Disorder: Bad doctors who cross the border can hide their dirty secrets. We dug them up
The Toronto Star built an ‘unprecendented’ database to track problem physicians throughout their careers across state, provincial and country lines. Most of the doctors we identified are Canadian-trained. Among them: a children’s kidney specialist convicted in California of possessing child pornography (working in Quebec now); a pediatrician who surrendered his New York licence after the state medical board discovered he faked his own suicide with a forged death certificate (working in St. Catharines, Ont. now); a family doctor who was jailed and stripped of his U.S. medical licences after being convicted of selling opioids to an undercover agent in Hawaii (working six days a week in Markham, Ont., now).
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Global litigation funding options hit Canadian market
Independent brokers are perfectly placed to help lawyers and their clients navigate Canada’s fast-changing litigation funding landscape, says Katie Armstrong, director of international development at TheJudge Global.
The firm, founded in 2000, is the largest international litigation funding and insurance broker, and recently entered the Canadian market via its merger with Toronto-based JusticeRisk Solutions.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/ thejudge-global-litigation- funding-options-hit-canadian- market.html
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Kolapully and TTC Insurance
Mrs. Shoba Kolapully was injured on March 6, 2012 in an accident with a TTC bus while she was a pedestrian walking across the street at a corner crossway. She sought benefits under the SABS from the TTC but when the parties were unable to resolve their disputes through mediation Mrs. Kolapully applied to the FSCO.
https://www.deutschmannlaw. com/blog/post/kolapully-and- ttc-insurance
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A nurse just lost her freedom to criticize health care. That’s bad for everyone
Carolyn Strom is a nurse from Prince Albert, Sask. In 2016, the Discipline Committee of the Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association (SRNA) found her guilty of professional misconduct after she used social media to voice her concerns about the care her grandfather received at the end of his life in a nursing home in Macklin, Sask., a town in which Strom herself did not practice. Her comments were, by contemporary standards, balanced and restrained; she named neither individuals nor their profession and she thanked those who had provided good care. She ran afoul of the SRNA for hurting the feelings of a handful of nurses. The SRNA fined Strom $26,000, most of it to cover the costs of her own disciplinary investigation and hearing.
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BC Psychologists Speak Out Against ICBC Plan to Label Psychiatric Conditions as “Minor Injuries”
As recently discussed the BC Government, at the lobbying of ICBC, are trying to pass a law reducing the rights of British Columbians who are injured by distracted, impaired or otherwise at fault drivers.
As part of the overhaul ICBC is trying to label all psychological and psychiatric conditions as “minor” injuries, taking away the judicial rights of people who suffer these injuries in collisions and capping compensation for these.