The classic Mad Magazine comic strip Spy Vs. Spy featured nearly identical spies – one dressed in black, one in white – constantly scheming to harm each other, usually with some incendiary device. The two alternated between victory and defeat in a clever visual representation of the Cold War.
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An open letter to Premier Wynne from Ontario’s Doctors
Ontario’s Doctors were extremely disappointed to read your incorrect comment as reported in the Sudbury Star over the weekend regarding our recent negotiations with your government. And we felt, to be fair to patients, we needed to reach out to correct the record.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1478533/an-open-letter-to-premier-wynne-from-ontario-s-doctors
Personal injury lawyer launches challenge against Bill 15
Lawyer and advocate Joseph Campisi is launching a constitutional challenge in the Ontario Superior Courts, seeking a declaration that parts of the legislation that were recently passed by the Liberal Government are discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be inoperative.
Transparency about medical errors a ‘magic bullet’ that could help make heath care safer: report
Improving transparency around medical error is a potential “magic bullet” that could finally start to make health care less hazardous after years of lacklustre efforts, concludes a new report from a major American patient-safety organization.
NDP wants secret info on Ontario’s top billing doctors made public
TORONTO – Ontario’s New Democrats plan to introduce legislation next month to force the government to disclose the names of physicians who bill the province’s health insurance system and the amounts they charge each year.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1787657/ndp-wants-secret-info-on-ontarios-top-billing-doctors-made-public/
15 per cent target for Ontario auto ‘does not compute’
While calling out the legal and health care community for rising insurance costs, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s Barb Taylor opened fire on the Ontario government’s premium target for auto insurers.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/15-per-cent-target-for-ontario-auto-does-not-compute-187452.aspx
Two-year trial deadline repealed under new rule change
“It’s an improvement on a situation that became unworkable not only for lawyers facing dismissals but also for the courts, for master courts that have had to deal with the ramifications of those automatic dismissals,” says Andrew Murray, a partner at Lerners LLP.
Will Automated Cars Lower Insurance And Improve Urban Expansion?
Automated cars are the next big thing to affect Canada’s transportation and insurance industries, according to the Conference Board of Canada. Technological experts predict that hands free cars will be fully tested, operational, and on the roads between 2020 and 2025, which will significantly change how people commute throughout their daily lives.
http://www.lowestrates.ca/news/will-automated-cars-lower-insurance-and-improve-urban-expansion-1507
Resolving auto insurance benefit disputes stacked against public
TORONTO – With last year’s passage of Bill 15, the “Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014”, the handling of accident benefits disputes in Ontario is to be passed from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) to the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT).
There are obvious reasons for the public to fear this transition.
Changes that support permanent fixes to Ontario auto system needed
Progress on the Ontario insurance product will continue to stall out without changes to clarify injury definitions and to enhance transparency in the tort system, both of which are fuelling higher costs and hampering efforts to achieve government-mandated rate reductions, speakers suggested during P&C Crystal Ball 2015 in Toronto