As medical pot becomes increasingly mainstream and Canada moves toward legalizing the substance, health experts are emphasizing the need for doctors and patients to consider the sometimes serious side effects linked to the various ways of consuming the drug.
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A new blood test developed in London, Ont. that claims to show with 90 per cent accuracy whether a concussion has occurred could become a significant tool for health professionals and the public, says Toronto critical injury lawyer Salvatore Shaw.
Those are questions worth pondering given the latest update on the Crown Corporation’s fiscal situation. A few months back in this space, I pointed out ICBC was once again being used as a political football by the B.C. Liberal government and it now appears the air has been rapidly squeezed out of the ball.
Bari, 35, a tool and dye maker, is entitled to up to $86,000 in benefits to assist in his recovery, but, had the collision occurred 24 hours earlier, he would have been eligible for up to $2 million.
Before September 1, 2010, if you were injured in a car crash, your basic auto insurance would provide you with $100,000 of coverage to pay for needed medical and rehabilitation benefits to get you back to work and recover from your injuries. This basic coverage would cover you for 10 years.
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“I was always interested in the knights defending the weak, the oppressed against the oppressor,” says Rastin, managing partner of Rastin & Associates, a litigation firm with offices in Barrie, Midland, Orillia, Collingwood and Owen Sound. “I’ve always viewed the type of work that we do as being the closest thing to being a modern knight in our society.”
The telephone is old technology. Recent reports have shown that speaking by phone may be on the way out. However, the telephone is still an important part of the toolkit for tribunals in ensuring access to justice. Videoconferencing is the (relatively) new flavour in administrative justice, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the telephone as an accessible and technologically easier tool.
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For those working in the personal injury and medical-legal fields, you will be familiar with the new License Appeal Tribunal (LAT). This LAT, effective April 1, 2016 was FSCO’s solution to long wait lists in the previous SABS mediation process whereby insurers and claimants essentially try to resolve disputes about claimant’s benefits, rehabilitation, or other denials and discrepancies.
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A visit to Brantford may cost more than visitors bargain for.
When the 2017 budget passed at the end of January, the City of Brantford approved a motor vehicle collision fee for nonresidents in the fire department’s budget.
Does an ATV become an “automobile” under Ontario insurance law if it is involved in an accident outside Ontario?
In Benson v. Belair, an Ontario resident fell off the back of an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. He sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. The ATV, owned and operated by a BC resident, was not required to be insured under an automobile policy in BC and it was not insured.