Tom Teahen, Wynne’s chief of staff and senior political adviser, becomes the new president and CEO of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
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Christine Elliott named new patient ombud
Suicide attempts and insurance: Why you might not be covered
Canadians who try to injure or kill themselves could be forced to pay their own medical expenses because of policies found in the fine print of employee and individual health insurance plans that mental health advocates are denouncing as cruel, discriminatory and outdated.
Ontario Passes Legislation for Injured Workers, Broader Public Sector and Firefighters
Strengthening protections for workers while supporting businesses is part of the government’s plan to build Ontario up. The four-part plan includes investing in people’s talents and skills, making the largest investment in public infrastructure in Ontario’s history, creating a dynamic, innovative environment where business thrives, and building a secure retirement savings plan.
Ontario drug strategy leaders urge province to take action against opioid epidemic
For just $12 naloxone can save those lives. But Ontario’s drug strategy leaders say the province is slowing down the process of getting the emergency lifesaving medicine-that reverses an opioid overdose into the hands of those needing a lifeline.
Changes to Ontario Accident Benefit Claims are coming …yet again!
Accident benefits are quite frankly, an incredibly complicated and dense area of the law. The rules for accident benefits, in many respects, are made in favour of large insurance companies and designed to limit an injured claimant’s ability to recover an income. It’s not a committee of accident victims who sit around and make these laws, and tweek them ever so slightly. Rather, it’s deep pocketed insurers and so called “insurance experts” who do so at the behest of the large insurance lobby.
Superior Court decision confirms long-term disability payments may be deductible from awards for income loss
The Court recognized the long-standing principle that negligence damages are to be measured by actual loss and double recovery is prohibited. Yet, this principle has been subject to the “private insurance exception”. Courts have applied this exception in the context of LTD benefits. In particular, if these benefits were obtained under the terms of a collective agreement, they were held not to be deductible from a claim for lost wages.
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Previous Discovery Transcripts, Expert Reports and Mediation Documents Ordered Produced in Indivisible Injury Case
In today’s case (Easton v. Chen) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2011 collision and sued for damages. The Plaintiff was also involved in four prior collisions that resulted in injury claims, all of which settled prior to trial.
Civil Non-Family Cases Filed in the Supreme Court of BC: Research Results and Lessons Learned
The most frequent problem identified by the respondents was their clients’ reported inability to get any traction with the ICBC adjuster. The high frequency of this response is of course in part due to the number of respondents whose practice is based on MVA cases. The other primary problem for claimants attempting to resolve problems on their own is the sheer complexity of the systems with which they have to deal and the number of issues that require resolution. These problems result in the claimant feeling overwhelmed and under too much stress to further pursue the case without legal assistance.
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What could be causing Canada’s spike in auto collisions?
In late November, Allstate released an analysis which demonstrated that its policyholders’ collision frequency rates increased 7.3% in Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario.
Fuelling Discontent
There has never been a serious study to determine if the increase in the number of injury claims is the result of the frequency of accidents or vehicle design. It does appear that minor injury claims have risen at a greater proportion to serious claims. It also appears that serious claims are investigated in greater detail than minor claims, with the latter being dealt with on a casual basis under accident benefit coverage.
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