The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) Board of Directors has released its initial Progress Report to stakeholders. The Way Forward: Building a Modernized and Adaptive Regulator
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What the Election Could Mean for Ontario Auto
All parties have taken strong stances on auto insurance and CBC coverage suggests that this could be a decisive issue for voters.
While a revised platform hasn’t been revealed from the Ontario PC‘s since Doug Ford became party leader, the original platform under Patrick Brown included a call to eliminate territorial rating – the practice of using postal codes as a determining factor when setting rates – and promised to crack down on insurance fraudsters and uninsured drivers. However, these positions could change since Ford has come out against the entirety of Brown’s platform.
“Blinding” Expert Witnesses: An Effective Trial Strategy
By any measure, expert witnesses are an integral part of the judicial process. They can break down complex concepts into more palatable formats for the jury while making the facts at hand easier to understand. Although retained by a litigating party, qualified expert witnesses generally bring an air of objectivity and impartiality to a trial, as their opinions are based on evidence. But that does not immunize experts from a certain level of bias, however slight or subconscious.
https://www.theexpertinstitute
Juries bring ‘humanity and common sense’ to civil trials
Juries play an important role in civil trials and the trend in the last two decades to include them in medical malpractice cases is a positive development, Toronto litigator Richard Shekter tells AdvocateDaily.
“I’m a supporter of juries. I love them because they bring humanity and common sense to a highly technical process. I want to see them continue,” says Shekter, a partner with Shekter Dychtenberg LLP.
A Victory for Expediency and Injured Plaintiffs: Court Orders Personal Injury and Fraudulent Conveyance Actions be Heard Together
On October 29, 2014, a car struck Fareed Ahmed while Mr. Ahmed was a pedestrian on a crosswalk island. Arnold Rowe was the driver of the vehicle that struck Fareed Ahmed. Mr. Ahmed suffered catastrophic injuries that require him to have 24-hour attendant care and are expected to prevent him from ever working or functioning at a normal level again.
Simplifying claims involving automated cars
Canada’s insurers are developing a framework for insuring automated vehicles that is designed for handling auto claims quickly, regardless of whether tort liability arises from human error or a manufacturing defect in the automated vehicle.
https://www.canadianunderwrite
Brian Injury and Personality Change
Brain Injury Can Change Your Personality
Traumatic brain injury or concussion are both considered to be forms of brain damage and have many long and short-term impacts on the patient. We all know about the headaches and sensitivity to light and sound that can occur, but many people are less aware of the fact that brain injury can result in changes in personality. The changes can be sublet of severe and can be permanent.
https://www.deutschmannlaw.com
New Bill Looks to Give ICBC Immunity From the Courts
This week the BC Government introduced two bills that look to give ICBC more power at the expense of British Columbians. The Insurance (Vehicle) Amendment Act and the Civil Resolution Tribunal Amendment Act.
http://bc-injury-law.com/blog/
Who’s Liable in an Accident When You Lend Your Car?
You’ve probably let a friend or relative borrow your car before (maybe even an acquaintance). And you ’ve also borrowed someone else’s car to haul a big load or run out to the store quickly.
Lending your car to a friend or relative is so common that it might not seem like a big deal, but it can have serious legal consequences that you may not have considered.
Data Shows Fatal Car Accident Rates Significantly Higher on 4/20
The pending legalization of recreational marijuana sale and use has left police forces across Canada in a dilemma. While the date of legalization has been widely advertised as coming this summer, the police don’t yet have legal limits for impairment, nor have they been issued approved road side testing devices to determine whether people are impaired.