Research shows that sleep is among the most critical factors for peak performance, memory, productivity, immune function and mood regulation – but the speed and information overload of today’s pace of life can challenge sleep quality, resulting in a decline in health and cognitive function.
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What the Jury in Your Ontario Car Accident Case Doesn’t Know
If you have been seriously and permanently injured in an automobile accident, you are entitled to damages for your pain and suffering. If your case goes to trial, the members of the jury are usually not told about two important things which can have a significant impact on whether you receive fair and just compensation. First, they are usually not told that there is a deductible which reduces the award of damages. Second, they are not told that the person who caused your injuries probably has insurance which pays for his or her lawyer as well as any judgment for damages.
WRPS sergeant retires while facing misconduct investigation
A Waterloo Regional Police sergeant who lied to police about his role in a car crash involving his son is no longer facing any charges under the Police Services Act – but that doesn’t mean he was cleared of wrongdoing.
http://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/
CIP Society Ethics Column – A Timid Claimant
Insurance companies have a responsibility to act with good faith in all dealings with insured persons. Despite this, adjusters do sometimes lose sight of the need to be fair and honest in their interactions with claimants.
The great divide
In Canada, there is some usage of expert “panels” in tribunals and other administrative law bodies, where there is often very technical and complex evidence and the triers of fact most certainly don’t have the necessary levels of knowledge or expertise to weigh the value of one expert against another. Thus, it makes perfect sense for all sides to agree on experts and have them testify in a more collaborative way.
Self-Represented Litigants’ Response to “the Rights and Responsibilities of Self-Represented Litigants”
In my 28 August 2015 post, “The Rights and Responsibilities of Self-represented Litigants,” I reproduced a document intended to sketch out, like the name suggests, the reasonable expectations that litigants without counsel should have as they make their way through the legal system, and their concurrent obligation to attempt to acquire a reasonable understanding of legal processes. This caught the eye of Julie Macfarlane, professor at theUniversity of Windsor and director of the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, who arranged for the document to be reviewed and commented open by a number of the self-represented individuals who have been involved in the NSRLP in the past.
Seasons of Caregiving: Challenges, Skills and Strategies
There is one description families affected by brain injury often use to summarize their experience — “Life changed in an instant.” No matter the cause or type of injury, life changes and we change with it. Brain injury usually occurs suddenly and we are not given an illustrated owner’s manual for life going forward.
Judge slashes Toronto lawyer’s ‘excessive’ fee to give more money to injured child in malpractice suit
A judge has taken the dramatic step of slashing a Toronto lawyer’s payout in a medical-malpractice lawsuit by almost $500,000 and denying the plaintiffs’ request for $1.5 million to buy a new house, saying more of the award should go to the injured child at the heart of the case.
Time for patient self-pay for some procedures in Ontario: Doctor
With healthcare costs soaring and Health Minister Eric Hoskins slamming doctors for billings that are “out of control,” one specialist — an associate professor at University of Western Ontario — says the government should consider the concept of “patient self-pay” for some procedures.
http://www.torontosun.com/