All owners of vehicles in Ontario must purchase a standard auto insurance policy. Effective June 1, 2016, to help make insurance premiums more affordable, the benefits and coverages you receive in a standard auto insurance policy are changing – some have been reduced, and some options for increased coverage have been eliminated or changed.
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“Auto insurance fraud continues to be a serious problem and has plagued the Ontario auto insurance system costing as much as $1.6 billion a year,” said Kim Donaldson, Vice-President, Ontario, Insurance Bureau of Canada. “We are thrilled to see the Government make the fight against fraud a priority.”
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Despite having canceled his account, Stanley Brown of Pickering in Ontario, Canada, recently learned he was still paying insurance premiums on the 1994 Plymouth Acclaim he got rid of nearly a decade ago, according to a report by CTV Toronto.
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Allegations of interfering with medical care and disregarding the opinions of medical professionals within the ranks of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) have fuelled a scathing report against Ontario’s workers’ compensation board. A protest held in front of the WSIB’s office in Windsor, Ontario on December 15 followed the release of the report in November.
The Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) announced last month several changes to the auto insurance system in the province. The reforms are designed to reduce the incidence of fraud and abuse in the system, which force up premiums.
Making the LTD claim is the first and most difficult step of the process. The paper work is NOT simple, nor is it quick/short. For some, simply getting the LTD claim forms from the employer or the insurer is difficult. They both know that you want the forms to go on disability. And for both employer and LTD insurer alike, this isn’t good news. We see employers and insurers who are sometimes slow or reluctant to get people the forms they need to make an LTD claim.
The insurance industry had a lot to say about what Google did wrong a day after the search engine giant said it would be pulling the plug on its year-long Google Compare experiment selling auto insurance online.
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The issue of the retrospective application of legislative changes was again before the court in the context of automobile insurance rights in Davis v. Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company [2015] ONSC 6624.
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In this week’s case (Olson v. Yelland) the plaintiff was involved in a 2012 rear end collision. The Defendant admitted fault. The Plaintiff sustained soft tissue injuries to her neck, mid back and shoulders which continued to pose problems at the time of trial.
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