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For everyone, there are times when a dark cloud just seems to be following you around. You may not even even know why. While we don’t mean to minimize the value of medication for those who experience this on a daily basis, UCLA neuroscientist Alex Korb, author of The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time, has some insights that might just get you back on the sunny side. It’s all got to do with neuroscience.

http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/4-things-you-can-do-to-cheer-up-according-to-neuroscience

Six years ago, a head-on car crash in Surrey, B.C., left Mikaela Wilhelmson’s bones and future shattered.

A witness at the scene remembers her saying: “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”

Since then, the young woman had been fighting for compensation. Recently she was awarded a $4-million settlement from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), along with a precedent-setting $100,000 award to be used for the future cost of surrogacy because her massive injuries left her unable to bear children.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mikaela-wilhelmson-surrey-crash-icbc-lawsuit-4-million-settlement-surrogacy-1.4077942

One of the more confusing aspects of adjusting an accident benefits claim is dealing with the numerous amendments to the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS). Not surprisingly, during the life of an accident benefits claim, the SABS may be amended several times, each time enacting new provisions that may (or may not) affect the benefits available to a claimant.

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A Brantford man who was injured in a bizarre accident in Ancaster nine years ago has won $2.4 million in a civil lawsuit against two snowplow companies.

On April 20, a Brantford jury awarded Greg McKnight money for pain and suffering, lost income and future health-care costs.

http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2017/05/04/jury-awards-24m-for-injuries-in-terrible-accident

There’s nothing wrong with the use of “consensus reports” in personal injury matters as long as they contain accurate information, says Toronto orthopedic spine and trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Ford.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/michael-ford-the-expert-consensus-report-a-useful-tool-ford-1.html

The Ontario 2017 budget included an important change to proof of auto insurance. The province will seek to introduce electronic pink slip replacements in the form of electronic documentation. It is an important step that is viewed as long overdue.

https://www.shopinsurancecanada.ca/blog/news/ibao-ceo-in-favour-of-one-ontario-auto-insurance-reform/

A recent court decision involving a crash that left a man quadriplegic serves as a reminder of the importance of maintaining municipal infrastructure for the public’s safety, says Toronto personal injury lawyer Paul Cahill.

In Chiocchio v Ellis, 2016 ONSC 7570 (CanLII), the plaintiff was a passenger in a minivan driving north when it was struck by a car heading west from an intersection.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/paul-cahill-cities-have-duty-to-maintain-streets-to-prevent-serious-injury.html

M. R. was injured in a car accident on December 6, 2013. She applied for Accident Benefits (OCF-1) to Aviva on February 11, 2014, approximately two months after the accident. Aviva responded to M. R.’s Application in Explanation of Benefit, informing her that she would be treated under the Minor Injury Guideline (MIG), and did not qualify for attendant care benefits. It is Aviva’s position that these letters are valid denials of M. R.’s application for attendant care benefits.

https://www.deutschmannlaw.com/blog/post/benefit-cannot-be-denied-before-it-is-applied-for

http://www.obradovich.net/chronic-pain-injury-compensation/