“Social engagements became opportunities for embarrassment and ridicule, causing Melissa terrible personal conflicts. She wanted to be out among the crowds, but simultaneously felt vulnerable and frightened by them. Melissa sank into long sulks and quiet withdrawals. The invitations stopped coming and the phone rarely rang,” writes author and TBI case manager Michael Paul Mason about Melissa Felteau who sustained a brain injury in a car crash.
http://www.brainline.org/landi
Insurance companies across the country should take immediate action and stop denying the claims of victims whose partners destroy a shared property, says the association representing insurers in Canada.
The announcement on Tuesday by the Insurance Bureau of Canada comes following a CBC News investigation which uncovered several cases where a spouse set fire to a shared property and the partner’s claim was denied.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines
On April 13, 2017, the Federal Government announced long-anticipated plans to legalize marijuana in Canada. Along with that announcement came the most sweeping proposed reforms to Canada’s impaired driving laws seen in decades. This article will attempt to forecast possible insurance coverage pitfalls if and when these laws are in place, based on the current law in Ontario.
http://otlablog.com/impaired-d
“Mediation, as part of a broader collection of ADR [alternative dispute resolution] tools, is playing an increasing role in our justice system today. There’s no doubt that there is a privatization of justice that is happening,” says Trevor Farrow, who focuses on the administration of justice as academic director of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution at Osgoode Hall Law School.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/20
SIMCOE – The Community Legal Clinic of Brant, Haldimand, Norfolk has been offering free legal services for decades in Brantford and area to those who can’t afford a lawyer.
Perhaps lesser known are the same services offered for more than 12 years to Haldimand and Norfolk residents from the legal clinic’s satellite offices in Simcoe and Dunnville.
http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2
When Brian Paolino was 17, he had no idea taking a few codeine pills from his parents’ medicine cabinet would lead to a life-threatening narcotic addiction.
He first used the pills to self-medicate depression and anxiety, gradually moving up to stronger drugs with higher doses. Now 35 and clean for the past four years, the articulate native of Toronto says emergency departments served as his “dealer” for more than 14 years.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/
Successive provincial governments have failed to make the major change that is needed to combat sexual abuse of patients at the hands of health professionals, says Marilou McPhedran.
She would know — she has chaired three task forces on the issue over the last 25 years.
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Customer satisfaction with auto insurance in Canada increases for the second consecutive year despite nationwide premium increases, according to the J.D. Power 2017 Canadian Auto Insurance Satisfaction Study,SM released today.
Last week the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) released an important decision in favour of one of our clients that will help other severely injured accident victims. The LAT handles disputes whereby injured individuals have been denied accident benefits by their auto insurance companies.
Several recent trends in personal injury litigation could potentially shake up the industry. Among them are the availability of insurance covering opposing parties’ legal costs, a tendency for more personal injury lawsuits to be filed well before the expiry of the limitation period and a tendency for insurers to go to trial rather than settle in cases where they believe a claim for pain and suffering will not meet the verbal threshold or exceed the statutory deductible specified in Ontario auto insurance law.