The “No Crash, No Cash” Rule on Public Transit Vehicles
Since May 10, 2011, Ontario riders on public transit vehicles who sustain injuries can no longer pursue accident benefits if the public transit vehicle they were riding in “did not collide with another automobile or any other object in the incident” as stipulated by section 268(1.1) of the Insurance Act R.S.O. 1990, c. I.8.
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“If you can’t find your itinerant clients, have they failed to cooperate with your defence of an auto insurance liability action?”, Gore Mutual Insurance Company
An Ontario court recently ordered Gore Mutual Insurance Company to pay a $300,000 balance owing on a settlement judgment, after finding that the inability of the company and its lawyers to locate their insured car owner and her son (who was involved in an accident) did not mean the car owner client was trying to evade the legal process.
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Dispelling myths about discovery plans
Discovery plans reduce the cost of litigation when properly used, says Wendy Cole, director of project management and counsel with Heuristica Discovery Counsel.
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Way out of poverty ‘is something called a job’: Ford
Within weeks of being swept into power, the premier’s fledgling Progressive Conservative government announced it would be prematurely ending the program, originally designed to be a three-year experiment which provided a guaranteed monthly income to eligible participants in Thunder Bay, Hamilton, Lindsay and Brantford.