What your auto client may like about Ontario budget
Some Ontario motorists would like an auto insurance system that lets carriers offer lower rates to clients who use the carriers’ preferred collision repair or healthcare facilities, an Insurance Bureau of Canada official suggests.
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Cutting Legal Aid: Reducing Access to Justice and Increasing Other Social Costs
People who cannot afford lawyers (or in some cases paralegals) are at risk of not having their rights vindicated. Or they may not even try to assert their rights in the first place. A great number of ad hoc arrangements have been created to respond to this failure to provide access to justice, but the most systematic is the legal aid system.
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Illegal activity doesn’t preclude accident benefits
The Divisional Court case upheld a Licence Appeal Tribunal adjudicator’s decision to award accident benefits to a woman who hit her head on concrete during a “car surfing” accident.
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Sustainability of self-regulation scrutinized
Bencher candidate John Nunziata says he thinks the provincial government may have to intervene in the legal profession’s self-regulation model following the bencher election ending April 30.
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Ontario to launch redesigned driver’s licence to prevent fraud, identity theft
TORONTO — The Ontario driver’s licence is getting a facelift that the Progressive Conservative government said will help combat fraud and identity theft.
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Ontario Health Claims Database HCDB Standard Report 2018
Effective February 1, 2011, Ontario health care facilities (including their associated health care providers) use the Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI) system to submit Ontario Claims Forms (OCFs) 18, 21 and 23 to Ontario licensed automobile insurers. Insurers use the same system to communicate their decisions to the health care facilities.
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Ford government to merge ambulance services across Ontario
The Ford government intends to merge the 59 local ambulance services in Ontario into just 10, CBC News has learned.
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Caregivers as Partners education for health care providers
Created by The Change Foundation, in partnership with the Changing CARE teams, Caregivers as Partners is an educational series for providers that helps them improve the experience of family caregivers through practical tips and examples.
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Neck Pain from Accidents
When a person is involved in any type of accident, whether this is a car accident or a workplace accident, people first start looking for visible injuries. Visible injuries include seeing blood or even bone sticking out of the skin from broken arms or the like.
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Here’s why your car insurance bill is too high, and why that’s so hard to fix
Understanding the problems plaguing the Newfoundland and Labrador car insurance industry is about as easy as a foggy drive down a pothole-ridden highway.
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NL government reveals planned adjustments for auto insurance system
Newfoundland and Labrador’s government has unveiled a plan to fix the province’s increasingly pricey auto insurance – but not everyone is happy about some of the measures proposed.