If Ontario motorists want lower insurance rates, the government will have to take a harder line on distracted driving, a former Ontario civil servant said Monday.
https://www.canadianunderwrite
Author Archives: Admin4
What Ontario needs to do to reduce auto insurance costs
Uber halts autonomous vehicle program in Toronto, U.S. after woman struck, killed by self-driving car
An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, police said on Monday, marking the first fatality caused by an autonomous vehicle and a potential blow to the technology expected to transform transportation.
https://globalnews.ca/news/409
How Ontario’s soaring auto insurance rates could swing the provincial election
It’ll be another four months before Claudio Polsinelli receives his auto insurance renewal for 2018, but he’s already expecting to get hit with a painful new premium.
“It’s just not fair,” he said. “I hear promises after promises… but rates still go up.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
The Courts Strike Back Against Insurer Tactics
Recently we have seen a trend towards intolerance by the Courts of insurers’ tactics. In the case of Persampieri v. Hobbs et al., an 84 year old plaintiff brought an action for injuries as a result of being rear-ended in a motor vehicle collision. The Defendant admitted liability but had explained that this claim was in the Insurer’s Defensible Program and that the only offer to settle would be $0.00. The decision of the Defendant to not engage in meaningful settlement negotiations forced the plaintiff to proceed to Trial by Jury.
https://www.hshlawyers.com/art
Supreme Court won’t hear coffee spill accident benefits case
The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from an Ontario auto insurer over a motorist who claimed accident benefits coverage after being scalded by hot coffee in a stationary car.
Doctors and Ethics in the Personal Injury World
Both personal injury lawyers and insurance companies rely on the expertise of medical professionals in building their cases. For personal injury lawyers the focus is on accessing the benefits that their clients are entitled to after an accident to make certain they recover fully from their injuries, and to allow them to live a normal life. The focus of insurance companies is obviously different. Their focus is to pay out what they perceive to be the appropriate settlement under their policies.
https://www.deutschmannlaw.com
Ontario says tribunals should not be as open as courts
Ontario’s quasi-judicial tribunals are not courts and should not be subject to the same principles of openness when it comes to their records, the province argued in a court filing Thursday.
Lawyer charges grieving family thousands for time spent responding to complaint against him
A grieving daughter was blindsided when the lawyer hired to settle her father’s estate charged thousands of dollars for time he spent responding to a complaint the family filed against him.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
Arbitrator Requires Insurer to Pay for CAT Assessment out of Fairness -Hassani and Guarantee
Lara Hassani was injured in a car accident on July 1, 2011. She applied for and received statutory accident benefits from Guarantee however when the parties were unable to resolve their disputes through mediation, and Ms. Hassani applied for arbitration at the FSCO.
OMA Brings Awareness to Wait Times Crisis in New Campaign
Ontario’s doctors are launching an advertising campaign highlighting the crisis in patient wait times ahead of the June provincial election.
“Not a Second Longer,” (notasecondlonger.ca) the radio and digital campaign which begins on March 19th, demonstrates the repercussions of the poor decisions made by Ontario’s provincial government. Ontario Medical Association President Dr. Shawn Whatley says that health care should be front and centre this spring, and for many voters across the province, it will be their number one issue.