What is it going to take to get motorists to put away their mobile devices while driving?
This is a question that police departments, government agencies, automotive associations (including the Trillium Automobile Dealers Association) and insurance companies have been grappling with for more than a decade.
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GO Transit buses have been involved in almost 900 collisions since 2014, and the agency’s bus drivers were at fault for nearly half of them.
According to figures provided by Metrolinx, the provincial organization in charge of GO, the service recorded 897 crashes between April 2014 and March of this year.
When the solution to a problem becomes a problem itself, something has gone seriously wrong. As public health officials express continued concern about the “opioid epidemic” – the over-prescription and overuse of habit forming opioids to ease chronic pain – people who may legitimately need this kind of medication as part of their treatment are often finding difficulties in obtaining such prescriptions.
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Major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder are among the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses in Canada. People with major depressive disorder experience sadness and loss of interest, or pleasure in activities they once found rewarding. People with generalized anxiety disorder experience persistent, excessive, and difficult-to-control worry. It is not uncommon for someone with depressive disorder to also suffer from an anxiety disorder or vice versa.
There have been a number of new changes introduced with respect to Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act (“PHIPA”). The Ontario government filed a new regulation on June 29, 2017 (Ontario Regulation 224/17 — the “New Regulation”). The New Regulation comes into force on October 1, 2017 and imposes a variety of new reporting requirements on health information custodians under PHIPA.
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Completing an application for life or disability insurance can be daunting. An applicant faces questions about their health history, addressing medical issues that the applicant may not fully understand or be aware of. The applicant may be inclined to answer the questions as quickly as possible or rely on a third party to answer the questions to hasten the completion of the application.
The rise of social media has allowed us to gain insight into any social media user’s life. With the click of a mouse, we can learn details about people whom we hardly know. We can learn things about them, that ten years ago, we had no way of knowing. The availability of personal information on social media has affected numerous industries, and personal injury law is no exception.
It is trite to say that the hallmark of the Canadian judicial system (and of most common-law jurisdictions) is fairness. In pursuit of preserving that hallmark, the law governing expert witnesses has evolved greatly over the past 20 years. Gone are the days of the ‘hired gun’ – the biased expert witness, whom a party could retain to do its bidding, and who would say whatever it took to win. Nowadays, expert witnesses must be independent, and advance evidence that is fair, objective and non-partisan, despite who is paying their bills.
The Courts in Ontario have made it clear that parties to a contract containing an arbitration clause will be required to arbitrate rather than pursuing a lawsuit, unless they both agree otherwise. The Arbitration Act itself specifically provides that Courts are not to interfere in disputes covered by an arbitration agreement other than for the limited purposes of assisting in the conduct of arbitrations, ensuring that they are conducted in accordance with arbitration clauses, to prevent unequal or unfair treatment of parties to arbitration clauses, and to enforce arbitration awards.