Toronto remains the most expensive auto insurance market in Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area is bucking a province wide-trend, according to figures from Kanetix. The city’s car insurance prices continue to rise despite the fact Ontario auto insurance premiums are declining across the province. Shop Insurance Canada adds that Toronto is burden on Ontario as a whole and the government must work harder to solve the excessive prices in the GTA area.
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As the article notes, judges have become fans of the reliability and security of structured settlements — financial products that divide large legal settlements into regular, tax-free instalments across many years and potentially for life.
TORONTO — Ontario has introduced legislation that would see doctors’ licences revoked if they grope a patient.
Clearly the health system cannot be sustained by arguing about federal-provincial transfer payments. New sources of income must be found, and to accomplish this, the Canada Health Act needs to be updated and amended.
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is investigating a doctor who a Superior Court judge says wrote a “misleading” medical assessment about a car accident victim, to benefit an insurance company.
Unlike personal support care givers provided by an agency or a Community Care Access Centre, direct funding allows people with a physical disability to become the employer and manage their own attendants.
In today’s case (van Driesum v. Young) the Plaintiff was involved in a 2011 collision and sued for damages. The trial was scheduled for 18 days before a jury at the Defendants election. The Plaintiff succeeded in striking the jury from the case largely on the basis that his wage loss claim was complex.
A Toronto doctor has lost his bid to sue the past president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association for libel over an email she sent to other lawyers, warning that he altered medical reports on victims of car accidents to thwart their insurance claims.
When Canadians suffer potentially life-altering injuries in accidents, the medical assessments carried out for insurers can be crucial to determining what kind of benefits they obtain.