More than two-thirds (67%) of polled Canadians responded incorrectly when asked if an expensive car always costs more to insure that a cheaper car, according to a new survey on Canadians’ financial literacy.
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Neuroplasticity-Based Treatment Needs Insurance and Personal Injury Law Collaboration to be Covered
Over 500,000 Canadians sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. The most severe TBIs cost the medical system over $400,000 at the time of initial injury, and subsequent costs remain high due to indirect expenses and follow-up treatment.
Traffic footage saves man from fake claim
A man involved in a fender-bender in Surrey, B.C. managed to avoid a fake insurance claim, after traffic camera footage proved he was not at fault.
Partisans at the Gate: Expert Evidence and the Ongoing Duties of the Trial Judge
Once a judge has allowed expert evidence to be admitted at trial, is the Court’s “gatekeeper function” at an end? A recent decision of the Ontario Court of Appeal, Bruff-Murphy v. Gunawardena, 2017 ONCA 502, establishes that where an expert’s testimony leads to questions about her impartiality at trial, the trial judge has a positive and ongoing duty to exclude the evidence or give a warning to the jury, even after the evidence has been admitted.
It’s time to re-evaluate the jury system | Michael Spratt
Criminal trials are high stakes affairs. Unlike civil disputes criminal trials are not merely monetary. In criminal trials the defendants’ liberty and freedom hang in the balance. To lose a serious criminal trial means jail — confinement in a dirty, violent, and punitive Dickensian hellhole.
In The Dark: The Invisible Injury
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) defines a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a disruption in the normal function of the brain that can be caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head, or penetrating head injury. According to the CDC, an estimated 2.8 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury annually. 52,000 die, 282,000 are hospitalized and 2.5 million are treated and released from an emergency department. Falls were the leading cause of TBI and accounted for 47% of all TBI-related ED visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States.
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Medicinal Marijuana and Traumatic Brain Injuries
Several decades ago the Partnership for A Drug-Free America released a famous advertisement that any person of a certain age will be able to repeat to you verbatim. “Okay, last time…” the announcer began as a close-up of a buttered frying pan sizzled. “This is drugs,” he continued, before an egg was dropped in the pan. “This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”
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Association wants Nova Scotia to address strategy on acquired brain injury faster
The executive director of the Brain Injury Association of Nova Scotia says the Nova Scotia government should be addressing an already submitted strategy on acquired brain injury faster.
The government was sent a final report for the strategy in January, according to Leona Burkey.
The Neoliberal Writing on the Wall: Ontario’s Basic Income Experiment
Since 2010, the UK has endured a political regime that can be considered a cutting edge of the austerity agenda. Through the film, I, Daniel Blake, people around the world have become familiar with the institutionalized cruelty of the Country’s warped system of providing social benefits to those in need.
Broken auto insurance system can be fixed
RE: Ontario captive to industry demands on insurance rates (June 12)
These refreshing pieces by Ken Rubin identify the main reason why Ontario’s auto insurance system is broken: policy-makers’ complete reliance on biased industry consultants whose profit-making interests contradict those of the public.
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