Ontario Provincial Police say they saw a five-year high for the number of fatalities from collisions on roads they patrol in 2017, including a 10-year high for the number of people killed in collisions involving a transport truck.
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‘Drug-induced psychosis’ behind lawyer’s baseball bat attack on St. Thomas family: judge
Mark Phillips, the Toronto lawyer was in a “drug-induced psychosis” caused by heavy use of marijuana when he attacked a family in St. Thomas with a baseball bat last December, according to a psychiatric assessment.
Tips for Health Care Professionals on Providing an Expert Opinion
Personal injury lawyers routinely call upon health care professionals to provide expert opinions. Writing a well-thought-out medical report that gives all parties what they need has real benefits. For you, it will lessen your chances of having to testify in court. For the injured party, it may help them achieve a settlement. The Court benefits by having an unbiased expert assessment to help it reach the right decision.
Ghostwritten medical reports should not be permitted: Ford
Ghostwritten medical reports are not the same as consensus reports and should not be allowed in medical legal cases, says Toronto orthopaedic spine and trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Ford.
“Unfortunately, ghostwriting gets confused with consensus reports, and they’re not the same at all,” he tells AdvocateDaily.com.
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Tip to broker leads to undercover auto fraud investigation
As auto insurance premiums go up, Aviva Canada is going after healthcare providers and legal professionals who are conspiring to submit false or inflated claims.
Fraud is a “key” reason auto insurance premiums are rising in Ontario and the government needs to do more to stop it, Aviva said in an April 5 press release. The insurer is calling on the province to “accurately track and report on fraud and our progress in fighting it.”
The Not so Reasonable Cost of Medical Documents
Information is of utmost importance in insurance litigation and obtaining clinical notes and records, medical reports and other medical documentation is an everyday requirement. It is not very often that we see insurance companies pushing back on the costs associated with this necessary task. For the most part, it appears that when a practitioner or facility requests an amount for the purpose of obtaining records, insurers or their counsel usually pay it because the information contained in the records is so vital to the proper management of the claim.
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Pedestrians: Protect Yourself and Don’t Become A Target
In 2016, 43 people pedestrians died in traffic related accidents in Toronto. That was the highest number recorded since 2005. A disproportionate number of those killed were over the age of 55, which begs the question as to whether our aging population is a factor in the increase in numbers, or is it that driving has simply become more hectic on Toronto streets. Either way, more needs to be done to curb the current trend.
http://derekwilsonlaw.ca/pedes
Humboldt team bus crash is a tragic reminder that we need safer roads
This is how young men die in Canada.
Not gunned down in the streets, not in terror attacks, not going off to war.
They die sitting on a bus, or behind the wheel of a car, on the way to work, or on the way to play, on highways and byways and city streets.
We barely take notice until they die 15 at a time.
Optimal Medication Management for Spinal Cord Injury: A Research Study
Do you provide clinical care or assistance to someone with a spinal cord injury? If so, help researchers learn about your experiences with medication management, and the barriers/facilitators to best medication-related care.
$175,000 Non-Pecuniary Assessment for Brain Injury Leading to Early Onset Dementia
Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Vancouver REgistry, assessing damages for a traumatic brain injury.
In today’s case (Weaver v. Pollock) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2010 collision that the Defendants accepted responsibility for. The Plaintiff suffered a traumatic brain injury and ultimately was diagnosed with early onset dementia linked to this injury.