According to recently released statistics from StatsCan there are currently 61,063 auto insurance related cases that are in Ontario’s civil court. According to the latest data there are an additional 34,075 cases in either mediation or waiting for an arbitration hearing at the Financial Services Commission of Ontario DRS system. That’s a total of 95,138 unresolved MVA claims that are in Ontario’s courts alone and these are all people with physical injuries, often cognitively impaired and facing serious challenges in overcoming traumatic injury. An indication of the dysfunctional legal climate in Ontario is that the volume of auto insurance cases before the courts in Ontario is up 42% since 2009/2010 according to the StatsCan website, an increase in cases that is far greater than the other provinces who were part of the survey.
FAIR letter to Canadian Forum on Civil Justice Project