Your eyes glance up at your rear-view mirror and you spot another vehicle following you a little too close for comfort. “Get off my tail!” you mutter in mild annoyance, wondering if that car or truck will be able to react in time if you’re forced to suddenly slow down or stop.
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Medical experts, along with their reports, are major pieces of evidence in any serious personal injury case in Ontario.
The testimony of a Plaintiff, and that of a Defendant, will likely be self serving.
The Bank of Canada says the number of households that owe at least 3.5 times their gross income has doubled since before the financial crisis, reports the Globe and Mail. For many, their large mortgages have pushed them into a “high-wire act with no safety net,” according to the article. A Manulife survey found that 25 per cent of people have saved just $1,000 for emergencies, says the Globe.
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Canada lags behind other well-off nations when it comes to timely access to health care, according to an influential survey of patients in 11 countries, including the United States.
Canadian patients reported more trouble scoring same-day or next-day appointments with their family doctors than patients in any country but Norway, which tied Canada for last place.
When pain researcher Diane Gromala recounts how she started in the field of virtual reality, she seems reflective.
She had been researching virtual reality for pain since the early 1990s, but her shift to focusing on how virtual reality could be used for chronic pain management began in 1999, when her own chronic pain became worse. Prior to that, her focus was on VR as entertainment.
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The decision of Adjudicator Truong in S.G. and Unifund Assurance Company, LAT: 16-000879/AABS addresses the importance of complying with Case Conference Orders and emphasizes the applicability of the “Heath Analysis” when considering entitlement to Non-Earner Benefits.
In the LAT decision A.B. and Aviva (December 23, 2016) a claim for non-earner benefits, medical benefits and interest was considered. Vice-Chair J.R. Richards followed the well established test set out by the Court of Appeal in Heath v. Economical in considering, “complete inability to carry on a normal life”. When faced with surveillance which showed the claimant working delivering pizzas post accident, the claimant raised a novel argument which will henceforth be called the “pizza oven heat therapy” argument. He stated he was working unpaid as the heat from the pizza ovens alleviated his pain.
We turn to lawyers when we’re often at our must vulnerable. It’s a relationship built on trust. but what happens when that trust is betrayed? A CBC investigation reveals how lawyers across Canada have misappropriated and mishandled clients money, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, or sometimes even charging vulnerable people top dollar for shoddy services. So who’s protecting Canadians from untrustworthy lawyers? Mark Kelley investigates.
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A.T. v. Globe24h.com, 2017 FC 114 (CanLII) [First published in Canadian Lawyer Magazine]
There is no easy way to manage private facts in public documents, especially when the documents are posted online. For more than a decade, Canadian courts, tribunals and legal publishers have followed recommendations from the Canadian Judicial Council to shield court records from being easily accessed by search engines. This, it is felt, provides the needed balance between accessibility and privacy.
Since 2000, there have been more than 1.6 million car accidents on Canadian roads. That’s nearly 400 a day, around 200 of which occur in Toronto and the GTA. In the year 2012 alone, approximately 160,000 Canadians were killed or injured in road accidents. It is unsurprising, then, that many Canadians rely on car accident lawyers to help them access compensation to pay for rehabilitative, medical and attendant care following their accident.