Should your postal code impact your auto insurance rates? No
Christine moved from Richmond Hill to Binbrook, a small town on the outskirts of Hamilton. I spoke with her and she shared her story about how the move affected her auto insurance.
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Most insurance customers would share more data for better deals – report
Nearly 60% of consumers would be willing to share significant personal information with their bank and insurer in return for lower prices on products and services, according to a new report from Accenture.
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We must stop taking self-regulation for granted
As the regulatory model continues to come under the microscope in many jurisdictions around the world, proactive and practical steps must be taken if the legal profession wants to retain the privileges to which it has become accustomed.
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Ontario’s law society needs to address problems in self-regulation
As the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) prepares to elect a new slate of benchers this spring, the question of its governance structure, and particularly self-regulation of the legal profession, sticks out like a sore thumb. Self-regulation opens the possibility of conflicts of interest: lawyers governing themselves may, in making rules for the profession, make decisions that benefit themselves rather than the general public, who may be unable to protect their own interests.
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The Pitfalls Of Adverse Cost Protection
The Ontario Superior Court just recently released its decision in Peter B. Cozzi Professional Corporation v. Szot, 2019 ONSC 1274, which addresses the issue of how such funds are to be distributed following an award of costs against an unsuccessful plaintiff at trial.
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When your Long Term Disability Insurance isn’t Long Enough (Ontario)
Long Term Disability insurance isn’t easy to understand. It’s not a common tort or a common cause of action.It’s not an intentional act which causes harm, or a negligent act by an individual defendant which causes harm. That means it’s not easy for many people to understand.
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Clinical practice guidelines and the overuse of health care services: need for reform
Clinical practice guidelines can enhance the delivery of evidence-based health care. Yet, after reviewing the same evidence, at about the same time and from the same sets of clinical trials, medical panels in different parts of the world have issued varying, and sometimes even conflicting, guidelines. Guidelines issued by medical specialty societies in North America are often at odds with European guidelines and those of independent North American organizations that have few or no vested financial interests in the medical services at stake
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BIST ABI Acceptance Series, Week Two, A Review
This month, the Brain Injury Society Of Toronto is holding a series of four information sessions about acquired brain injury (ABI) acceptance, adjustment, strategies, and resources. I attended the second one on acceptance, presented by Dr. Bojana Budisin, Neuropsychologist and Dr. Liesel-Ann Meusel, Neuropsychologist, of Lad and Associates in Toronto.
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Ten days after arriving in the emergency department with pneumonia, 58-year-old Connie Bovier woke up in the intensive care unit (ICU). She survived acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis, and a host of other complications thanks to advances in critical care that allow more patients to survive life-threatening illness.