When we think of jury trials in personal injury cases, we often think of dramatic Hollywood-style trials, where the underdog sues and wins millions of dollars. However, in Canada, there are several aspects to personal injury law that impact awards.
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Ursula Samuels wants to know that basic income will help Hamiltonians on social assistance get ahead.
The 60-year-old mother who attended an information session at the Hamilton Central Library said she receives Ontario Works, and between juggling rent, food and other responsibilities, “it’s a struggle every month to get by.”
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More than four months after the release of David Marshall’s report on auto insurance, Insurance Bureau of Canada’s president and chief executive officer is hoping Ontario’s brokers will “add their voice” to calls from the industry to “fundamentally overhaul” auto insurance regulation in the province.
On October 15, 2014, the plaintiff, Slava Kushnir, was accidentally struck by the defendant’s vehicle as she was walking across the parking lot of a shopping plaza. Ms. Kushnir was thrown onto the hood of the defendant’s car and then onto the pavement. She sustained serious injuries to her back, neck and pelvis, as well as a brain injury, and was transported to the hospital by ambulance immediately after the car accident. Ms. Kushnir subsequently commenced a claim for $750,000 in damages for permanent and serious injuries.
Auto insurance premiums could become a provincial election issue if Ontarians continue to pay more for less coverage, Kitchener litigation lawyer Graham Bennett tells AdvocateDaily.co
A story by Canadian Press revealed auto insurance rates began creeping up in the first half of 2017 after a slow and steady decline over the previous four years.
Federated Insurance Company of Canada is allowed to bring forth arguments – in an Ontario auto accident benefits priority dispute with Intact Insurance Company – that a motorist convicted of driving without insurance was nevertheless insured by Intact, now that the Supreme Court of Canada has denied Intact leave to appeal.
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Re “Car insurance reforms bad for taxpayers” (Darcy Merkur, Aug. 12): I’m part of a group of auto injury victims that have been “Hit Twice” — first in a devastating accident and again by excessive legal fees
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Auto Insurance is big business in Canada. Seventy percent (70%) of people surveyed in our area have at least one car on their policy. With average Ontario premiums of $1458 a year most people think insurance will ‘take car of things’ if they’re hurt in an accident, and that if they’re injured the benefits will be adequate to help through accident recovery, or to live with the injuries. This isn’t true.
Car insurance can be a tricky thing. The only way to really test it is to have something bad happen. All that legal fine print and those payout limits may seem agreeable in the abstract but you can often discover the cold, hard facts are little balm when facing the emotional, as well as physical, fallout from a collision or claim.
Jenna Morrison was 38 years with a five-year-old son and another child on the way when she was struck and killed by a truck while riding her bicycle one fall day in 2011. The incident at the corner of Sterling Road and Dundas Street West galvanized Toronto’s cycling community. Throngs of cyclists joined a memorial ride through the streets of the city to mark the tragedy and call for better safety measures. They left a “ghost bike,” painted all in white, at the place where Ms. Morrison was killed.