A recent ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the Quebec Court of Appeal’s decision against two car accident victims in two separate cases. The Supreme Court ruling laid out that a car accident victim who receives compensation from Quebec’s public automobile insurance plan cannot sue third parties for ‘aggravated’ or ‘separate’ aspects of their injuries given there is “plausible, logical and sufficiently close link” between the accident and the subsequent events.
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot Krane talks about the complex mystery of chronic pain, and reviews the facts we’re just learning about how it works and how to treat it.
One in five Canadians will experience a mental illness at some point in their life and many of those people may seek disability payments to help them cope, but experts say the process is often so complicated and mental illness is so misunderstood by employers that workers run into trouble getting the help they need.
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Disabled people in Ontario are much more likely to experience poverty than non-disabled people. Many have to live on sub poverty payments under the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) or the even more wretched income provided by Ontario Works (OW). Those that are in this situation are confronted by an ongoing process of surveillance, invasion of their privacy and moral policing.
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A report just released by the Ontario government takes a look at the region’s auto insurance industry and offers a number of recommendations to address several issues deemed to be plaguing the sector.
The Law Society’s Advertising and Fee Issues Working Group is considering potential regulatory responses to issues relating to advertising, referral fees, and contingency and other fee practices. The Working Group has received a great deal of information about these issues, including advertising that may be false or misleading and fees that are not transparent and appear to have an impact on the way in which legal services are being provided.
Ontario should not move to a government-run auto insurance system the province should establish hospital-based examination centres with authority to establish treatment plans that would have to be provided by the insurers, without dispute, a special advisor to the provincial government suggested in a report released Tuesday.
If you have suffered injuries or losses in a motor vehicle accident for which you may be at fault, you may still be entitled to compensation.
A person injured in an automobile accident in Ontario is potentially entitled to receive compensation through two different streams. One is through a negligence claim for damages and the other is through a claim for Statutory Accident Benefits, sometimes referred to as no-fault benefits.
Most people will experience some form of car accident during their driving careers, and in most cases the accident will be minor and the ensuing moments will pass un-dramatically: you’ll emerge from your vehicle uninjured, exchange insurance information with the other parties involved, and resolve your dispute in a civil manner. In some cases, car accident lawyersmay help victims access some form of compensation.
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