It will be designed “to test the growing view that a basic income could help deliver income support more efficiently, while improving health, employment and housing outcomes for Ontarians,” the province’s Ministry of Community and Social Services said in a statement on Friday.
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Manson would also like to see people with disabilities allowed to earn as much as they receive in annual benefits without triggering clawbacks, as is the practice in British Columbia. The extra income would help make ends meet, but more importantly, he says, the social connections would make life more worth living.
You may not think that brain injuries are a large problem, but they are in fact becoming a silent epidemic in Canada and are the number one killer in adults over the age of 44. Furthermore, men are more likely to experience a brain injury than women.
In today’s case (Lu v. Huang) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2011 rear-end collision. The Defendant admitted fault. The Plaintiff’s injuries included chronic back and neck pain, headaches with psychological consequences. The prognosis was poor with symptoms expected to continue into the future and remain partially disabling.
The report looks into how autonomous vehicles will impact road safety, road infrastructure, as well as insurance premiums and policy coverage. It also discusses how autonomous vehicles will lower traffic injuries and fatalities in what the report calls the greatest change in the automotive industry since the introduction of motor vehicles.
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The OFL recently filed a formal complaint with the Ontario Ombudsman Barbara Findlay. The 200-page submission was written by the authors of a previous headline-making November 2015 report entitled “Prescription Over-Ruled: Report on How Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Systematically Ignores the Advice of Medical Professionals”.
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Basic income, or guaranteed annual income, is a payment to eligible families or individuals that ensures a minimum level of income. Ontario will design and implement a pilot program to test the growing view that a basic income could help deliver income support more efficiently, while improving health, employment and housing outcomes for Ontarians.
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Benefits to those injured in car accidents in Ontario have been slashed as of June 1, part of sweeping changes to the provincial “no fault” accident benefits system that will leave victims struggling to make ends meet, says Toronto personal injury lawyer Simmy Yu.
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. was ordered by a federal judge to pay over $8.1 million in damages. The order comes after a jury came to the conclusion last year that the insurer acted negligently and in bad faith in denying a claim for the death of an auto accident victim, reported Property Casualty 360.
When the “future contract” provisions were eliminated from the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule effective April 15, 2004, the industry breathed a sigh of relief that yet another category of “questionable” claims for Income Replacement Benefits were being eliminated.