“The law says that you have to stop at a yellow light unless it’s unsafe to do so,” says Vancouver Police Const. Brian Montague. “If you don’t, then: one, it’s just really dangerous and two, you’re breaking the law.”
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So You Think You’re Covered?
Catch the Ontario Today show on podcast with Jokelee Vanderkop and FAIR’s Board Chair Rhona DesRoches on the delay and deny tactics of Ontario’s insurers
http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/
Make a comment about how you feel about auto insurance in Ontario http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2015/01/21/so-you-think-youre-covered/
To order “So You Think You’re Covered! The Insurance Industry Rip-off” see: http://www.deniedbenefitclaims.com/index.html
FAIR will be on the CBC Ontario Today show Wednesday, January 21 at 12 pm.
At issue is what car insurers and extended health insurers put legitimate claimants through in order to deny their benefits. Jokelee Vanderkop, author of ’So You Think You’re Covered! The Insurance Industry Rip-Off’, an all-too-real story about her 12 year long battle for benefits and her odyssey through Ontario’s dysfunctional auto insurance system, discusses her experiences. Rhona DesRoches, Chair of FAIR will be on an open talk line to answer questions about the thousands of seriously injured people with medically valid claims who are denied access to benefits.
You can find the CBC Ontario Today show at 99.1 or 100.9 or 93.5 (check online for your area) or you can listen online. The call-in number is 1-888 817 8995. Online http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/
CPSO Transparency Project – Phase 2 – opportunity to have your voice heard
Lots of comments on the CPSO Transparency Project Phase 2. What do you think about increased transparency when it comes to third party medical opinion vendors who write the medical-legal reports that are the basis for gaining access to benefits for auto accident victims?
You can have your say about transparency and public access to information about physicians and the secret cautions about the complaints about Ontario’s IME vendors here: http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=4981
Imaging study finds first evidence of neuroinflammation in brains of chronic pain patients
A new study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found, for the first time, evidence of neuroinflammation in key regions of the brains of patients with chronic pain. By showing that levels of an inflammation-linked protein are elevated in regions known to be involved in the transmission of pain, the study published online in the journalBrain paves the way for the exploration of potential new treatment strategies and identifies a possible way around one of the most frustrating limitations in the study and treatment of chronic pain – the lack of an objective way to measure the presence or intensity of pain.
Why is personal injury bar so against ABS?
With alternative business structures promising to be a key focus of debate for the legal profession this year, it’s clear significant opposition will be coming from at least one part of the bar: personal injury lawyers. But what is it about the idea that has them so worried?
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/201501194420/headline-news/why-is-personal-injury-bar-so-against-abs
The high cost of bad faith
Two recent, expensive bad-faith awards should serve as a reminder to long-term disability insurers of the boundary line between fair and foul play. When defending against an insured’s civil claim for insurance benefits, using sparse evidence to deny a claim or applying financially punishing tactics to pressure an insured into settlement will in all likelihood violate the insurer’s duty of good faith.
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=2294
UBI device vulnerable to cyber attack: expert
Insurance producers selling personal auto policies through a major national insurer may want to reach out to clients after it was revealed the carrier’s optional usage-based insurance devices are at risk.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/ubi-device-vulnerable-to-cyber-attack-expert-187299.aspx
Inside Canada’s secret world of medical error: ‘There is a lot of lying, there’s a lot of cover-up’
Research suggests that about 70,000 patients a year experience preventable, serious injury as a result of treatments. More shocking, a landmark study published a decade ago estimated that as many as 23,000 Canadian adults die annually because of preventable “adverse events” in acute-care hospitals alone.
The rate of errors may be even higher today, some evidence suggests, despite the millions of dollars spent on much-touted patient-safety efforts.
Duelling doctors fight it out over health funding: Cohn
Facing tough fee negotiations with the government, the Ontario Medical Association has appealed directly to the public with a big ad campaign casting doctors as guardians of our health. The OMA’s elected president, Dr. Ved Tandan, has deployed his best bedside manner to buff up the caring image of his 28,000 members.