A doctor commissioned to write a report on “fair compensation” for Ontario’s injured workers is embroiled in a legal battle alleging he “conspired” with a private auto insurance company to unfairly cut car accident victims’ medical benefits, the Star has learned.
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Understanding Trauma: How Stress and Trauma Cause Chronic Pain, Anxiety, Depression, & PTSD
Watch this video to find out how Trauma and Stress impact the brain to create chronic conditions, like: chronic pain, depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, and fibromyalgia. You will understand how the brain / body connection works and why nothing you’ve tried has helped so far. If you or a loved one suffer from chronic health problems no matter what you’ve tried, then you can’t afford to miss this cutting edge information.
Optional Benefits Are Now Less “Optional” Than Ever
If you didn’t know that your automobile insurance benefits were reduced on June 1st, you are not alone. A recent survey conducted by the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (“IBAO”) revealed that only 42% of consumers had heard about the changes and less than 20% could actually identify what those changes were. All Ontario drivers need to be familiar with these reductions to auto insurance coverage and need to know that optional benefits exist to restore coverage.
Valerie Hurley, who lost her partner and newborn son in a crash one year ago, is turning her grief into help for others as Ontario reduces insurance benefits for crash victims
Valerie Hurley’s face lights up, remembering the day she and her boyfriend took their infant son to Clovermead Adventure Park.
It was a perfect late-summer outing for Hurley and her partner, John Tremblett, who snapped photos of baby Carstyn playing in the sand and sitting atop a porcelain horse.
Appeal court orders reassement of law firms’ fees in personal injury case
An Ottawa man who battled two of his former law firms in court is celebrating the decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal to have his fee agreements with the firms reassessed.
The ruling in Clatney v. Quinn Thiele Mineault Grodzki LLP stemmed from the settlement of a personal injury claim that Mark Clatney of Ottawa had reached in July 2013 for $800,000.
FATAL CROSSINGS
The number of pedestrian deaths in Toronto has leapt 15 per cent over the past five years – and yet public attention and political reaction continue to fall short. Oliver Moore and Michael Pereira analyzed five years of data and found an increasingly urgent public safety matter
What to Expect During an Independent Medical Examination
When a plaintiff in a personal injury case puts an aspect of his or her physical or mental health at issue, such as by claiming disability from an injury or claiming emotional distress, the defendant will most likely and to obtain medical or psychiatric evidence to challenge those claims.expect?
What if PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?
For years, many scientists have assumed that explosive blasts affect the brain in much the same way as concussions from football or car accidents. Perl himself was a leading researcher on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., which has caused dementia in N.F.L. players. Several veterans who died after suffering blast wounds have in fact developed C.T.E. But those veterans had other, nonblast injuries too. No one had done a systematic post-mortem study of blast-injured troops. That was exactly what the Pentagon asked Perl to do in 2010, offering him access to the brains they had gathered for research. It was a rare opportunity, and Perl left his post as director of neuropathology at the medical school at Mount Sinai to come to Washington.
The positive power of what we say during treatment
Peerdeman and colleagues outline three main interventions known to enhance positive expectations for treatment: verbal suggestion “You’ll feel so much better after I do this…”; conditioning “If I give you this treatment and reduce the painful stimulation I’ve been giving you, when you next receive this treatment you’ll have learned to experience relief” (not that you’d actually SAY this to anyone!); and mental imagery “Imagine all the wonderful things you’ll be able to once this treatment is over”.
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OT Demystified Part 2 Housing and Home Modification Assessments Webinar June 16, 2016
In this live webinar we will provide industry and professional insights into the practice of Occupational Therapy. This insider knowledge will help you to best to understand the reports you are reading (both plaintiff and defence), and the situations you are encountering as you manage the legal aspects of complicated claims.