The 2019 Ontario budget entitled “Protecting What Matters Most” was released on April 11, 2019. It purports to look after the interest of the ‘little guy’. Sadly the budget suggests that access to justice and protection of the rights of innocent accident victims is not a high priority for this Government. Despite an underfunded, complex and antiquated justice system, the Government plans to reduce overall funding to the justice sector.
Healthcare Providers Respond to Auto Reform Announcements with Cautious Optimism
The Ontario Rehab Alliance (ORA), representing healthcare providers in the auto sector, sees much to applaud in the blueprint to improve the province’s auto insurance system presented in the 2019 Budget. “On behalf of our seriously injured clients we are thrilled with the return to the higher level of coverage for catastrophic injuries and relieved that this government has protected other accident benefits after years of cuts”, says Laurie Davis, Executive Director of the ORA.
http://www.fairassociation.ca/2019/04/healthcare-providers-respond-to-auto-reform-announcements-with-cautious-optimism/
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Rehab First Auto Insurance Submission to Finance Minister Fedeli
Auto insurance in Ontario is segmented according to nine lines of coverage. Our submission focuses on the two lines which represent the largest percentage of claim
costs, they being the Statutory Accident Benefit and Third Party Liability-Personal Injury lines. According to FSCO, in the 2015, 2016 and 2017 calendar years, those lines,
respectively, accounted for 58.1%, 56.2% and 52.4% of auto insurance claims costs.
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Traffic accident a case of the ‘unusual and usual:’ Paciocco
A “rare” case where a passenger suddenly grabbed the steering wheel of a car causing an accident presents different problems and challenges, Windsor personal injury lawyer Gino Paciocco tells AdvocateDaily.com.
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Cannabis arrest exposes flaws in new impaired driving laws
The arrest of a Nova Scotia motorist whose saliva tested positive for cannabis demonstrates an inherent flaw in Canada’s new impaired driving legislation, Toronto criminal lawyer Jacob Stilman tells AdvocateDaily.com.
