Applications Open for New FSRA Stakeholder Advisory Committees
TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 – FSRA is creating six Stakeholder Advisory Committees (SACs) this fall to serve as consultative bodies to FSRA’s Board of Directors. Today, we are launching the application process for these committees.
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V1102 – The Insurer’s Obligation to Give Medical and All Other Reasons for Treatment Plan Denials
Insurers are required to give their claimants determination notices within 10 business days of receiving treatment and assessment plans. Such notices must identify the items for which the insurer agrees to pay and must also identify any items that are denied. If there is a denial, then the insurer is required to provide “the medical reasons and all of the other reasons why the insurer considers any goods, services, assessments and examinations, or the proposed costs of them, not to be reasonable and necessary.”
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V1101 – A Dialysis Refusal Leads to Death: A Review of the Definition of an “Accident”
What is an accident for the purpose of an accident benefits claim in Ontario? This question has been addressed at the courts, FSCO, and the LAT on many occasions.
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Self-Regulation: Who Watches the Watchers?
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Regulator reviewing the role of MGAs in the sales process
While Ontario’s new financial regulator will not license managing general agencies (MGAs), it is taking a look at the entire sales process as part of its insurance conduct initiatives.
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Judge orders Trial to determine Liability for Multi-Car Collision that causes Chronic Pain
A recent lawsuit arising from a multi-car rear-end collision highlights the fact that even car accidents that involve no apparent vehicle damage or personal injury can later evolve into significant legal issues for the parties involved in the accident. For some injuries, including neck, back and soft-tissue injuries, accident victims may not feel symptoms or realize they have suffered a long-term injury until days after an accident.
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AI diagnosis technology a potential boon for accident victims
U.K.-based magazine
Autocar reports that vehicle manufacturer Hyundai is developing technology designed to alert emergency services to the specific details of the occupants’ injuries immediately following an accident.
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Changes to OHIP take effect: What you need to know
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Appropriateness Working Group Recommendations
Established by the Kaplan Board of Arbitration, the physician-led Appropriateness Working Group (AWG) reviewed several OHIP-insured services. The AWG used evidence, best practices and expert opinion to identify and update the delivery of certain services to help ensure the most effective care for Ontario patients.
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Health care, social service groups unite to fight Ford government’s proposed welfare changes
An unprecedented coalition of more than 80 Ontario health care and social service organizations is urging the Ford government to reverse a proposed welfare change that could deny disability support to tens of thousands of people with cancer, HIV and mental illness.
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Ford government cancels planned cuts to social assistance payments
The Ford government is scrapping controversial cuts to welfare for vulnerable children and adults with part-time jobs as part of a broader review of Ontario’s social assistance system, the Star has learned.
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Former Kitchener neurologist charged with 34 counts of sexual assault
Jeffrey Scott Sloka, 50, was arrested on Tuesday morning by Waterloo Regional Police’s special victims unit in connection to an ongoing sexual assault investigation.
