Chronic pain can damage and change your brain. If you live with chronic pain, you will know how devastating and wide-ranging the effects can be on your mental processing speed, your mood, and your memory.
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Chronic Pain Can Cause Long-Lasting Damage To Your Brain
Ontario Car Insurance – Will the Premiums Climb Up in 2017?
Ontario car insurance rates are still by far the highest across Canada. This publication looks, in detail, at these rates and scrutinizes the recent approval of rate changes by the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) to understand what consumers can expect in future.
https://insureye.com/ontario-c
Off-Coverage Still Means On-Claims
A FSCO arbitrator has confirmed that the first insurer that receives a completed application for accident benefits is required to adjust and pay the claim, even if the insurer is taking an off-coverage position.
http://www.insblogs.com/auto/o
$65,000 Non-Pecuniary Assessment for Lingering but Non Disabling Soft Tissue Injury
In today’s case (Dhaliwal v. Randhawa) the Plaintiff was involved in a 2011 collision that the Defendant was found wholly responsible for. The Plaintiff suffered an upper back and neck soft tissue injury that, while somewhat improved, continued to cause persistent symptoms to the time of trial. Despite the long lasting lingering symptoms the injuries were not expected to be disabling.
Last chance to address your pre-2012 files!
LAWPRO encourages all lawyers to take immediate action to ensure their pre-2012 files will either resolve or be set down for trial by December 1, 2016. Remember, under the new Rule 48, matters commenced before January 1, 2012 that are not set down for trial will be automatically dismissed – without notice to counsel – on January 1, 2017. To avoid the dismissal of matters that will not be resolved, you must obtain consent from all parties to file a timetable and a draft order with the court by December 1, 2016 as Rule 48.14(4) requires this happen 30 or more days before the dismissal date.
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Angry motorists berate first responders at fatal crash scene on Malahat
RCMP officers had to step in yesterday to protect first responders from angry motorists at the scene of a fatal accident on the Trans Canada Highway outside Victoria.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
A Claimant’s Delays in providing required Information and filing a Claim to his Insurer result in denied Long-term Disability Benefits
On November 17, 2006, Cecil Richards was injured in a motor vehicle accident and consequently, he notified his insurer, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, of his intention to pursue a claim for disability benefits issued under a group insurance policy. The insurer approved short-term disability benefits for Mr. Richards from November to January. However, before providing long-term disability (LTD) payments, they requested additional information from the plaintiff.
HEINER V. PASHA et al.: CLAIMING DIMINISHED VALUE UNDER ONTARIO’S OAP1 AUTO POLICY – REDUX
The Plaintiff, Andrea Heiner, claimed compensation against various defendants arising from damage caused to her vehicle following its involvement in a collision in which Heiner was not at fault. Heiner sued both the owner and driver of the at fault vehicle that struck hers, and her own automobile insurer (Desjardins Group). The action proceeded to trial and was heard over two days in 2015 before Deputy Judge Anschell. The action was dismissed in its entirety in a written decision issued in January 2016.
A Punitive Costs Award Against a SRL – and the Lawyers Who Gloat
$15,000 awarded against a SRL for “intentionally” driving up costs
This ruling on costs by Madam Justice McGee awards $15,000 of costs against the applicant mother (self-representing) in a child support variation case. The respondent father was represented by counsel, and the judge accepted the argument that the mother had intentionally escalated the dispute, thereby running up his legal costs.
Rethinking our understanding of chronic pain and use of opioids: Doctors’ Notes
We are very much in the middle of an opioid crisis and the statistics are staggering. One in every eight deaths of young people in this province is attributable to opioids. We have more deaths per year from opioids than we did at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis and opioid related deaths continue to climb in each province and territory.