Nevertheless, Dunn says WSIB premiums have significantly increased for emergency services responders, due to “presumptive legislation” on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
“The city’s benefit consultant will be asked to review the rates to determine if some premiums can be reduced,” she continued.
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Toronto’s ambitious $80 million Road Safety Plan will move ahead after it was given unanimous approval the city council. It will be the first ever road safety plan in Canada’s largest and most populated city. Insurance industry authority, Shop Insurance Canada, says some global cities have even more aggressive plan, but Toronto’s effort should be commended as a good place to start.
In today’s case (Norris v. Burgess) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2010 collision and sued for damages. Prior to trial ICBC offered to settle the claim for $678,500. The Plaintiff rejected this offer and proceeded to trial where a jury awarded $462,374. After statutory Part 7 deductions the amount was reduced by $70,196.
Acquired brain injury (ABI) is 15 times more common than spinal cord injury, 30 times more common than breast cancer and 400 times more common than HIV/AIDS, it states.
[22] Edward testified that he and his brother met with Mr. Crosbie in their office, but that he was not in favour of any involvement with Mr. Crosbie. His evidence was that he did not like Mr. Crosbie’s look or attitude. However, ultimately, the Goldentulers were convinced to take on Mr. Crosbie because he was good friends with another personal injury lawyer known to them, namely, Mark Elkin. Mr. Elkin vouched for Mr. Crosbie and told them that the Financial Services Commission order was a technicality. The Goldentulers met with Mr. Elkin and relied on his recommendation. According to Edward, he told them that Mr. Crosbie regularly had access to million dollar files and that he was both honest and helpful. This recommendation was ultimately what persuaded the Goldentulers to give Mr. Crosbie a chance.
[23] Susequently, Crosbie and the Goldentulers came to an arrangement. Crosbie would bring his files to the Goldentuler law office and his clients would sign an authorization for Henry to act on the files. Mr. Crosbie would receive a corner office as well as an office for an assistant and another for his common law spouse, Leyenson, who also worked as a paralegal. Henry agreed to cover the overhead and provide a receptionist. The agreement was that Crosbie and Leyenson would work the files and any settlement on an accident benefits file would be split 50/50 between Crosbie and the Goldentulers. If the file was a complicated tort claim, the Goldentulers would handle the litigation and Crosbie would get a 30 percent referral fee.
[24] This arrangement began in September 2005 and ended in February of 2007. Edward’s evidence was that the FSCO was trying to make the cease and desist order permanent as against Mr. Crosbie, but the Divisional Court declined to allow it. Shortly after the FSCO order expired and Mr. Crosbie was able to work on his own again, his files and equipment were surreptitiously removed from the Goldentuler office. Mr. Edward Goldentuler testified that he requested building surveillance showing Mr. Crosbie and his assistant removing boxes of files during the night. Those photographs were contained at tab 5 of Exhibit 1.
[25] Edward testified that approximately 120 files were removed from the premises. Within a few days of the files being removed, he received directions and authorizations signed by clients to forward any documents remaining in his office relating to those files to KLC. Edward learned that that company was owned by Mark Koskie. Mark Koskie was a lawyer who had worked in the Goldentuler firm for approximately three months before he had been fired for incompetence. Edward later learned that Crosbie, Leyenson and Yattavong were involved in KLC. Edward wrote to Crosbie demanding the return of the files. Mr. Crosbie wrote back on March 12, 2007, indicating that he did not take anything that belonged to Goldentuler and Associates, as the files were the clients’ property and had been returned to the clients. The letter is located at tab 9 of Exhibit 1. There is nothing in the letter indicating why Mr. Crosbie left or explaining how the relationship had broken down.
[26] Edward later found out that between September 2005 and February 2007, very few of Crosbie’s files were settled. However, his firm was obliged to do corrective work on many of them. Edward later surmised that Crosbie and his team were simply waiting for the files to ripen and then would wait to leave and settle them on their own or divert them to Mr. Elkin.
[27] It was also discovered during Ms. Leyenson’s cross-examination that, despite the cease and desist order, files were settled during this period under the name of Lightning Paralegal. A bank statement marked as Exhibit 2 is directed to Lightning Paralegal at 1000 Finch Avenue West, Fourth Floor, and shows a large deposit of $37,550 on February 13, 2007. This is the only bank statement Edward was able to obtain. He suggested that the $37,550 must have been a settlement. He was concerned about how many other settlements had been directed to Lightning Paralegal.
[28] Edward also testified that when Crosbie and his team took the original files and retainers, they tried to wipe out the computer system.
Buying a new car is exciting. However, the price of your new make and model is only the beginning of the costs associated with owning a car. There are other expenses that come with your new wheels after you leave the dealership, including registration, ongoing maintenance, parking, and, of course, insurance.
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When we get nicer weather in Ontario, people are more inclined to ride their motorcycles and bikes. The rules of the road and the way personal injury law works in Ontario for motorcyclists and cyclists can get a bit tricky…but it shouldn’t.
“To simply drive from the place of purchase to your property on public roads would require the vehicle be registered and carry insurance,” says Andrew McGrath, manager of media relations with the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC).
Female athletes who have suffered at least one concussion showed structural differences in the corpus callosum, the structure that connects the two hemispheres of the brain, compared to unconcussed female athletes and other women. The brain images captured 6 months post-concussion suggest long-term changes in the corpus callosum, mainly in the region where it projects to the prefrontal and premotor areas of the brain, as described in an article in Journal of Neurotrauma, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com/).
Those hearing about the idea for the first time learned the idea was not actually new. There had been experiments in the 1970s in both the United States and Canada. Some people living in cities like Seattle, Denver, and even Gary, Indiana had once been given basic income guarantees. All people in the city of Dauphin, Manitoba in Canada had been given a basic income guarantee as well, for five years. The results of these once forgotten experiments, where people found themselves healthier and more in control of how they chose to work, were now being discussed anew.