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SEVENTH REPORT OF THE ADVERTISING & FEE ARRANGMENTS ISSUES WORKING GROUP

INTRODUCTION: SEEKING ACCESS TO JUSTICE, FAIRNESS AND REASONABLENESS
1. In this seventh report to Convocation, the Advertising and Fee Arrangements Issues Working Group (“Working Group”)1 reports its recommendations to date to enhance the operation of contingency fees in Ontario.

Personal Injury Payment Structures: Why You Benefit from a Contingency Fee

With a contingency fee structure, you don’t pay anything unless you recover compensation for your damages. Our fee will consist of a percentage of your settlement. In addition, we lay out all legal costs throughout the case, allowing you to put your financial resources to medical bills and rehabilitation.

http://www.findlaylaw.ca/blog/personal-injury-payment-structures-why-you-benefit-from-a-contingency-fee

Strategies for Proving that Chronic Pain is Physical

Chronic pain cases are among the toughest assignments facing plaintiff’s personal injury counsel. I hope that the strategies which follow will help you obtain justice for the victims of chronic pain. These victims will need all the courage, energy and forensic skill you can muster if they are to get the compensation they deserve.

https://oatleyvigmond.com/strategies-for-proving-that-chronic-pain-is-physical/

Real health care for injured workers

Welcome to the website for IAVGO’s No Evidence and Bad Medicine reports. Here you will find evidence that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board is failing injured workers. Its culture of pro-active denial and benefits cuts is hurting workers.

https://www.fairnessforinjuredworkers.org/

‘Crazy spell:’ Naked suspects in Alberta kidnapping may have sipped trippy tea

LEDUC, Alta. — The people charged in a bizarre naked kidnapping that ended in a car crash may have unknowingly drank some hallucinogenic tea over breakfast, says a relative.

RCMP have released few details about what happened Monday just before 10 a.m. in the community of Nisku, just south of Edmonton.

Ontario Court of Appeal to decide if names of top-billing doctors will be made public

Ontario’s highest court will hear an appeal of a lower-court decision to end the secrecy surrounding the province’s highest-billing doctors.

The Ontario Court of Appeal said Wednesday it has granted leave to appeal to three groups of doctors who want to prevent the names of top-billing physicians from being made public.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/08/ontario-court-of-appeal-to-decide-if-names-of-top-billing-doctors-will-be-made-public.html

Accidents abroad: protect yourself part 1

In part 1 of our mini-series on accidents abroad, Kitchener litigation lawyer Graham Bennett discusses some of the precautions Canadians should take if they plan on driving outside the country.

Ontarians should check they have adequate insurance coverage before embarking on a trip outside the country, says Kitchener litigation lawyer Graham Bennett.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/graham-bennett-accidents-abroad-protect-yourself-part-1.html

How surveillance can totally destroy your Long Term Disability Claim (Ontario)

The unfortunate realities of Long Term Disability Claims is that in order to be on claim, you can’t be working. If you’re not working, that means that you’re not earning an income.

Whether you live in a big city like Toronto, a medium city like London, or on the outskirts of Peterborough, love alone won’t pay your rent, mortgage, pay for the food for your family, or pay the heating or hydro bills.

https://www.torontoinjurylawyerblog.com/2017/11/surveillance-can-totally-destroy-long-term-disability-claim-ontario.html

Phones Down, Heads Up Act places onus of safety on pedestrians, lawyer says

A private member’s bill meant to raise awareness for distracted walking places responsibility on the most vulnerable people in a traffic interaction which, from a personal injury perspective, might not be such a great idea.

https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/personalinjury/articles/5098/phones-down-heads-up-act-places-onus-of-safety-on-pedestrians-lawyer-says

I’ve Been Sued – Now What?

Every vehicle in the province is required to have insurance, but how does that insurance help you in the event that you get sued after a motor vehicle collision?

https://oatleyvigmond.com/been-sued-now-what/