Recognizing that a court challenge to stop the Star from publishing the identities of the province’s top-billing physicians is likely doomed, some doctors are discussing a damage-control strategy that would see them voluntarily release names to another media outlet — along with some positive spin, the Star has learned.
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A Family Affair: Family Law Act Claims resulting from Personal Injury
When I ask an injured client to explain exactly how they were injured, they often answer in a similar way: “it happened in a split second”. In that split second, an accident victim’s entire life may have changed. They may be severely injured and face months or years of recovery and they may never return to their occupation again. In the worst cases, they may not have survived the incident to explain anything at all. However, in nearly every one of these cases the injured or deceased person is not the only person who is affected in that instant.
A Few Good Practice Habits: Examination for Discovery
An examination for discovery often marks the point in which you really sink your teeth into a case. The parties and opposing counsel come to a face-to-face meeting, and key evidence comes out, warts and all. Much of the exploration in an examination for discovery will uniquely depend on the specific witness and the answers that are drawn out. But some answers call for a habitual, routine response. Here are some good practice habits to use at examinations for discovery and avoid malpractice claims.
http://avoidaclaim.com/2017/a-
Personal Plight: Mending the Market
“Personal plight” legal services are those provided to individual clients whose legal needs arise from disputes. Personal plight areas such as family law, refugee law, and human rights are the site of Canada’s worst access to justice problems.
http://www.slaw.ca/2017/08/11/
Benefits can be retroactively approved in case where injuries clearly fall outside MIG – YCTT v Certas LAT 16-000872
Y.C. T-T. was injured in a car accident on November 27, 2013. She was the passenger in a car when another car t-boned them. The airbag deployed, and YCTT was taken to hospital by ambulance after describing being thrown forward and backward. X-rays revealed no broken bones. The day after the accident, she visited her family doctor complaining of chest and neck pain. The doctor assessed, among other things, tenderness including at 3rd and 7th costal (rib) cartilage.
Judge denies Defendant’s Request for Neuropsychological Examination of Plaintiff in Long-term Disability Dispute
Claimants who are denied insurance benefits or coverage from an insurer can seek the help of a long-term disability claims lawyer to represent them against their insurance company and ensure that they get all the benefits they are owed. The personal injury lawyers at Injury Lawyers of Ontario specialize in representing clients who are involved in an insurance dispute and require expert advice and representation in upholding their right to fair treatment.
My car accident and Long Term Disability Claims are worth over a million dollars (Ontario)
If you asked any injured accident victim, or long term disability claimant how much they believed their case to be worth, you would get all sorts of varying ranges of damages.
Most injured accident victims and disability claimants don’t understand how the law works. They also don’t understand how the laws of damages work for their respective personal injury claims. The laws of damages deal with quantifying the value of a personal injury claim.
Chronic fatigue syndrome in Canada ‘even worse than we thought’: survey
A new survey suggests chronic fatigue syndrome may be far more prevalent in Canada than previously thought, and more widespread than many more well-known conditions.
The suggestion is based on a Statistics Canada survey in which respondents were asked whether their doctor had diagnosed them with chronic fatigue or its more recently introduced name, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). The survey shows some 560,000 Canadians report that they have the disease — a 36.7 per cent increase over previous results from 2014. The number also suggests the disease may be more common than breast cancer, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis combined.
Car insurance reforms bad for taxpayers
Anyone want to save $100 per year on automobile insurance?
What’s the catch you ask?
Well, you will get less insurance protection than you need.
http://www.torontosun.com/2017
Once-feted B.C. auto insurer is a wreck, no clear path to a lasting fix
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s once-celebrated public auto insurer has become a financial train wreck, its critics say as studies into the beleaguered Crown corporation call for dramatic rate hikes and drastic structural changes to save it from ruin.