Chronic migraines, neck and shoulder pain have been my constant companions since childhood. To the outside eye I look just like everyone else. But, like most people who suffer from chronic pain, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Things people with chronic pain want you to know can help you understand what a friend or partner who navigates a chronic pain condition is really going through.
https://www.bustle.com/p/9-thi
Health authorities in Chilliwack, B.C.’s are apologizing and promising an investigation after a woman who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run was discharged from hospital far too soon.
Mary Stewart suffered two broken ankles and broken bones in her legs and feet after being struck down while crossing a road in Chilliwack in the early hours of Sept. 9.
Five years ago to the day, a Markham family lived through what would be the first of a series of nightmares. Their bright and funny four-year-old son was hit by a car in their driveway, leaving him unconscious for days.
Organized by region, this popular, easy-to-use directory of Ontario’s community legal clinics lists addresses, phone numbers, and websites.
The distinction between what constitutes “legal information” versus “legal advice” has always been a source of confusion and substantial anxiety for legal practitioners and service providers. Given the importance of the distinction and its implications vis-à-vis the authorized practice of law, it is shocking that the term “legal information” is nowhere defined in any of the relevant statutes or regulations governing the provision of legal services. Across the provinces, the governing regulation tends to focus on defining “legal advice,” “legal services,” or “practice of law” without providing an accompanying definition for “legal information” as a point of contrast. That being said, non-authoritative definitions have been offered by public legal education and information (PLEI) organizations like the Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA) and Community Legal Education of Ontario (CLEO), which describe “legal information” in terms of “general non-tailored information about the law” and “self-help materials.”[1]
http://www.slaw.ca/2017/09/26/
In my previous post, I talked about why your personal injury lawyer might be advocating an out of Court settlement rather than risking the uncertainty of a jury trial.
But there is another reason why personal injury lawyers tend to avoid jury trials: The way the Courts define ‘winning’ and ‘losing’.
http://derekwilsonlaw.ca/what-
The Superior Court of Justice is warning that it “desperately” needs more judges to keep up with an increasingly heavy and complex caseload.
In the long-waited appeal decision from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (“FSCO”), Delegate Evans in Perth v. Surani (FSCO Appeal P16-00022) confirmed that a self-employed insured’s post-accident business income is deductible from their income replacement benefits for the purposes of paragraph 7(3)(b) of the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule – Effective September 1, 2010, O. Reg. 34/10 (“SABS”). Section 7(3)(b) provides that an insurer may deduct from an income replacement benefit: “70% of any income from self-employment earned by the insured person after the accident and during the period in which he or she is eligible to receive an income replacement benefit.”
GK was injured in a car accident on January 30, 2015. She applied for accident benefits under the SABS from Wawanesa who denied payment for two treatment plans for physiotherapy because the MIG payment limit was been reached. GK appeals for payment to the LAT.
https://www.deutschmannlaw.com
LD was injured in a car accident on July 24, 2014 and she applied for accident benefits from Aviva who denied her claims for a non-earner benefit and several treatment plans for medical treatment and examination expenses. LD applied to the LAT for resolution of the dispute.