Two of Canada’s largest licensed producers of medical marijuana are facing class action lawsuits after recalling product that tests confirm contained banned pesticides myclobutanil and bifenazate.
On March 6, Toronto law firm Roy O’Connor LLP issued a proposed class action against Mettrum Ltd. A second class action by Halifax-based law firm Wagners, has been proposed against New Brunswick-based OrganiGram.
https://nowtoronto.com/news/cl
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.
http://www.saultstar.com/2017/
Ah, the fine print. Lawyers always read the fine print because we so often need to refer to it in our cases.
But when many people see a block of legalese in two point font they simply shrug their shoulders, ignore it, or scroll past it to click the “Yes I have read all the terms and conditions” option and get on with their lives.
http://www.hshlawyers.com/blog
Single-incident trauma, such as a car crash, can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin health psychologist Terri deRoon-Cassini, PhD, reviews PTSD symptoms and discusses the importance of treatment.
Changes were made to the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) and Ontario Works (OW) on August 1, 2017. These changes will have a huge impact for the recipients, of these benefits, who have personal injury cases.
http://www.hshlawyers.com/arti
Sports-related concussions are a major public health concern and are notoriously difficult to diagnose. But new research from UBC’s Okanagan campus provides a new tool to help test athletes for recent brain trauma. “Diagnosing concussions relies heavily on patients reporting their symptoms. While there are other tests that may be used to help clinicians make a diagnosis, they can be extremely subjective, inaccurate and, frankly, easy to manipulate,” says study lead author and UBC Okanagan medical student and PhD candidate Alexander (Sandy) Wright. “Because concussions can’t be seen on standard brain imaging, the holy grail in the concussion world has been to devise a test that can objectively say whether or not a patient has suffered a mild brain injury.”
https://medicalxpress.com/news
We are becoming Lazy drivers as technology makes driving easier. Driver assist features that make basic driving easier has already resulted in driver’s sense of responsibility for the car operation relax.
https://www.deutschmannlaw.com
Can an Ontario auto insurer, in a priority dispute over which insurer should be responsible for paying a claimant accident benefits, be able to argue that a motorist convicted of driving without insurance was in fact insured by the insurer who cancelled the motorist’s policy?
WATERLOO REGION — It was meant to boost consumer choice and restrain rates: let drivers buy extra auto insurance to cover medical bills, lost income and liability.
https://www.therecord.com/news