One of the first lessons that any student of personal injury law learns is that an owner of a motor vehicle is vicariously liable for the negligence of the vehicle’s operator. This vicarious liability is imposed by s. 192(2) of the Highway Traffic Act, which states:
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CALGARY—An interim report released at a pain management conference suggests the best way to cut down on opioid addiction is to not prescribe the drugs in the first place.
Michael Heitshu, chairman of the Coalition for Safe and Effective Pain Management, says a lack of affordable alternatives for pain relief in Canada is partly behind an over-reliance on opioids and rising addiction rates.
A 21-year-old woman from Vermilion Bay, Ont., says the challenges of providing care to another family member seem to go un-noticed in northern Ontario.
Alissa Van Wynen is speaking out about the needs of young caregivers, as part of the Young Carers Forum, organized this week by The Change Foundation.
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The provincial attorney general’s failure to defend the constitutionality of its Minor Injury Guideline has helped open the floodgates to Charter challenges in accident benefit disputes, says a Toronto insurance lawyer.
Toronto man Gideon Fekre has been found not guilty in the death of a 31-year-old woman who was killed on a Leslieville sidewalk in 2015.
Justice Peter Bawden found the Toronto man, who was 18 at the time, not guilty of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death on Tuesday afternoon in Ontario Superior Court.
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The critical decision on whether or not a patient will be forced to testify at the discipline hearing for the doctor accused of sexually abusing her now rests in the hands of a five-member discipline panel.
After a car accident pain is a common problem. For some people the pain is transient and short lived. For others the pain is longer lasting but still improves with time, and for some it becomes a chronic and lifelong problem. Chronic pain is difficult to manage because it can seemingly ‘feed on itself’.
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If you have had an accident and want to make a disability insurance claim you may have turned to the Internet for useful information to help you decide what type of claim you can make.
You may have tried to find out what is classed as a disability. You might have also have tried to establish what is considered a short-term disability and a long-term disability.
People receiving long-term disability benefits have enough to worry about. The last thing they need is to have their disability benefits cut off. After all, doesn’t your employee benefits booklet say you would get 66 per cent of your income each month if you became ill and were unable to do your job?
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Toronto criminal lawyer Jordana Goldlist says the Canadian government needs to do more to regulate the prescription of fentanyl that’s causing a growing number of users to overdose amid a North American crisis.
“I cannot accept that there are legitimate reasons for prescribing, and therefore making available, such a strong narcotic that it is literally killing people every day,” she tells AdvocateDaily.com.
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