Thunder Bay, Ont. residents had a chance to raise their questions about the province’s basic income pilot project at a meeting in the city on Thursday night.
About 50 people attended the community information session, held at the West Thunder Community Centre.
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[4] We find no error in the motion judge’s decision. As the motion judge found, the appellant and the respondent are practising lawyers in good standing who are subject to the Rules of Professional Conduct of the Law Society of Upper Canada. As such, their referral fee arrangement had to comply with what was then r. 2.08(7) of the Rules. Rule 2.08(7) provided that a referral fee may only be paid by one lawyer to another if:
(a) The fee is reasonable and does not increase the total amount of the fee charged to the client; and
(b) The client is informed and consents.
[5] The motion judge found, correctly in our view, that the appellant’s requested referral fee did not comply with any of the requirements of r. 2.08(7). In particular, when informed of the proposed referral fee, the client did not consent to the amount claimed by the appellant, finding it to be unreasonable. The client would only consent to the payment of a lesser amount, which was paid to the appellant by the respondent, and which the motion judge found was reasonable in the circumstances of this case.
Every year in Ontario, people who are seriously injured in car accidents and then find themselves hit twice.
Mark Clatney was Hit Twice! In a devastating accident & again by excessive legal fees.
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OTLA President Claire Wilkinson stopped by the OTLA office recently to provide members with an update on current projects. If you’re interested in getting involved with our efforts, please contact us at info@otla.com or visit http://www.otla.com
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Most people buy, and later renew, their auto insurance without giving any thought to the coverage they have, or more importantly, what coverage they should have.
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GS was injured in a motor vehicle accident on January 1, 2014. She is in a dispute with Aviva over her entitlement to SABS. GS seeks two categories of benefits: attendant care benefits and medical and rehabilitation benefits. Aviva has denied the attendant care benefits on the basis that GS did not apply for them in a timely manner. It has denied the medical and rehabilitation benefits because, in its view, they are not reasonable and necessary given the nature and scope of GS’s injuries.
In the November 6, 2015 edition of the Law Times, personal injury lawyer Brian Goldfinger wrote an article entitled “Three Day Summary Judgment Mini Trial”. You can find a link to Mr. Goldfinger’s article here as reproduced in the Toronto Injury Lawyer Blog.
Most Ontarians are not aware of the limits on their car insurance benefits. I’ve written extensively on the regular changes to the benefit limits, which consistently trend downward. Successive governments have been lobbied heavily by the incredibly profitable car insurers to justify some of the highest premiums in Canada with some of the lowest benefit rates.
The Canadian medical profession is too close to pharmaceutical companies for comfort, warns a Toronto physician and expert in pharmaceutical policy.