When I first became involved with the Hit Twice campaign, it was a relief to find out there were other victims out there like me. I was injured in a car accident and then taken advantage of by the lawyer who was supposed to protect my rights. It didn’t take long to find out that I was hardly alone.
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Ontario Law Lets Insurance Companies Keep $37,000 from Your Car Accident Settlement
If you’ve been injured in a car accident, you may be eligible to file a lawsuit in order to recover compensation for the damages you incurred as part of the accident. Often, these lawsuits are essential to ensuring that your compensation adequately covers the massive financial burdens associated with medical bills, property damage and lost wages following your car accident. Unfortunately, what many people don’t realize is that Ontario law prevents injured victims from recovering the full compensation to which they’re entitled in many instances.
Can insurance brokers help drivers cope with Ontario’s reduced accident benefits coverage?
For years, the Government of Ontario has promised to lower auto insurance rates, a goal that consumers – and car accident lawyers – broadly supported. In September 2010, the province introduced sweeping changes to the auto insurance system that significantly reduced basic coverage. According to a Toronto Star article from August of that year, the insurance industry insisted that “the changes are needed to root fraud and waste out of the system, and that, if successful, premiums will eventually come down.”
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A Canadian first: Ontario wants to suspend the licences of distracted drivers
TORONTO — Careless drivers in Ontario causing death could soon be fined up to $50,000 as the government plans to introduce tougher penalties that will also crack down on distracted driving.
Experts dispute lawyers’ warning to MPs that impaired driving bill violates Charter
Organized bar groups are ringing alarm bells about the constitutionality of various proposed changes to the Criminal Code’s impaired driving provisions, but some legal academics contend the warnings are overblown.
LAT Upholds Limitation Period for Denied CAT Benefits
In a decision on a preliminary issue released September 7, 2017, Vice Chair Trojek of the LAT held that a catastrophically impaired Applicant missed the two year limitation period to dispute the Insurer’s refusal to pay housekeeping and attendant care benefits, coming to the same conclusion ADR Chambers came to in a similar case last year (Mayo v. Economical Mutual Insurance Co., [2016] O.F.S.C.D. No. 342 (QL).
The opioid crisis: patient engagement in pain management has never been so crucial
Pain is one of the most common reasons patients present to emergency departments and primary care clinics, as well as a common complaint among patients treated by subspecialty services. Physicians will agree that treating pain is vital. Yet despite grossly inadequate training in pain management – physicians are expected to offer multimodal pain management (including pharmacological, non-pharmacological and behavioural therapies). All too often, patients with acute or chronic pain also do not have a complete understanding of what options should be available to them and how to access them.
The Influence of Diet and Physical Activity on Brain Repair and Neurosurgical Outcome
The brain has a remarkable capacity for plasticity, an aptitude that ironically contrasts with the limited therapeutic approaches that would reduce the consequences of brain insults. Although a large amount of clinical trials have been performed to test the efficacy of various pharmacological compounds in minimizing the burden of neurological disorders, the results of many of these trials have been unsuccessful. Another concern frequently encountered in neurosurgical surroundings is that the patient outcome after brain surgery may not match the predicted prognosis.
You Can’t See Me
You can’t see me, but I exist. I live in your neighborhood. I am hurt and yet you don’t seem to know or care. I am broken, and yet you can’t see it on my body. I am scared and frightened every day and yet you will never know. If I told you I had cancer you would be calling, offering all kinds of help. There would be support groups, survivors with hope, meals delivered, and even child care offered. The phone doesn’t ring and the meals don’t come. My 8 year old daughter cries out, “I want my old Daddy back.”
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16-003909 v Aviva Insurance Canada, 2017 CanLII 59502 (ON LAT)
[30] I am also satisfied that the decision of the Arbitrator was not a final decision on the applicant’s future entitlement to attendant care benefits. Section 42 of the Schedule provides for ongoing applications for attendant care benefits. The Schedule recognizes that circumstances change and provides for new assessments (applications) being submitted at any time there is a change that would affect the amount of the benefit. The attendant care benefit issue before the Arbitrator and now LAT is an ongoing issue and the applicant is entitled by s. 42(9) of the Schedule to submit new assessments of attendant care needs to the respondent at any time there are changes that would affect the amount of benefits. Since the applicant is designated as catastrophically impaired [20]he is entitled to submit new assessments to the respondent until such time as he has exhausted the monetary limit in the Schedule. [21]