Lorraine Explains: Buckle up for the upcoming insurance ‘hard market’
As if Ontario drivers aren’t angry enough with car insurance rates, buckle up: They’re about to get worse.
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Insurers might forgive your first accident, but they won’t forget it
If you switch to a new insurance company, it will either look you up on a database that shows claims history or ask you to get a letter of experience from your previous insurance company.
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Pro bono: It’s in you to give | Brett Harrison
It is hardly news that access to justice is in crisis. The courts, lawyers and legal institutions seem to be stretched to capacity, with no easy solutions. Of course, in order to find solutions, we need to understand the problem.
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Did the truck driver in the Humboldt crash deserve his sentence?
A Saskatchewan court sentenced Jaskirat Singh Sidhu to eight years in prison for the catastrophic crash of his semitractor unit with the bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos hockey team. The sentence comes after Mr. Sidhu pled guilty to 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm. A case of this many counts and this much harm arising out of a single accident has little precedent.
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ACCESS TO JUSTICE (A2J)
“Legal needs have a profound negative impact on individuals and society in Ontario. To address these needs with finite resources and a defined regulatory mandate, the Law Society should ensure its access to justice initiatives are effective and consistent with its statutory functions.
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Using Artificial Intelligence for Demeanour Evidence
Demeanour evidence holds a controversial role in evidence law. Centuries of common law have allowed trial judges to assess the behaviour, conduct, and mannerisms to make findings of credibility. Often these findings can be useful to judges, especially when the only evidence available on crucial determinations of fact is viva voce testimony from each side.
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Cannabis Therapy being Explored in Concussion Treatment
A new study is hoping to reduce the neurological symptoms suffered by former professional National Hockey League players post-concussion. This group of athletes is the experimental pool for Dr. Charles Taylor who is one of Canada’s leading brain injury experts working out of Toronto Western Hospital. He is reasonably hopeful that the yearlong study of cannabis based therapies will help to reduce the severity of neurological issues that the former pro hockey players are suffering. For many of them successful treatment would improve their quality of life.
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Toronto quietly settled with Manulife over questionable claims for Viagra and other health expenses
The city of Toronto has quietly accepted $4 million from Manulife Financial, the benefits administrator it replaced in 2016 after questionable city employee claims for Viagra, fentanyl and other health expenses were not flagged, the Star has learned.