The Faculty of Communication and Design presented a panel Tuesday on the code of silence surrounding Canada’s healthcare system, exploring how Health Canada and various quasi-public agencies obstruct journalists and the public from getting access to vital information about health and health care in Canada.
http://theeyeopener.com/2015/01/fcad-hosts-panel-blasting-health-canada-on-transparency/
Uber is once again making the news due to concerns about proper insurance coverage – both for Uber operators AND Uber passengers. New facts uncovered by BuzzFeed focus on a California investigation, but may cause Ontario Uber users to question the company’s commitment to ensuring both its operators and passengers are adequately covered by insurance.
An examination for discovery in Canada, is akin to a deposition in the United States. The reason I make the comparison is because with the popularity of American legal dramas such as Law & Order, Suits and Boston Legal (May you Rest in Peace), more Canadians are familiar with the term “deposition” rather than “discovery”.
The province paid $242 million in project costs for its problem-plagued Social Assistance Management System, (SAMS) and “anticipated’’ that it would need to spend $11 million more.
On January 1, 2015, new legislation related to the calculation of prejudgment interest for non-pecuniary losses in actions arising from the use or operation of an automobile came into effect. The new legislation is contained in Bill 15, the Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014 (the “Act”), passed on November 20, 2014, which amends various Ontario statutes, including the Insurance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. I.8.
The SUV driver, Sharlene Simon, 42, who lived in Innisfil at the time, hired her own lawyer to sue Brandon Majewski’s estate, his parents and the County of Simcoe in the suit as well as Esch and Roberts.
Her husband, Jules Simon, a York Regional Police officer who was following his wife in his vehicle that night, is also suing for emotional trauma.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/10/teen-injured-by-suv-upset-driver-is-suing-him-too
A Hamilton, Ont., personal injury lawyer says his firm is the “poster child” for the risks of going paperless after ending up on the receiving end of a series of critical rulings from local judges.
In this week’s case (Afonina v. Jansson) the Defendant lost control of his vehicle and was involved in a single vehicle collision. Two of his passengers suffered traumatic brain injuries, one mild and one moderate, which resulted in long term complications.