Two weeks after Anne Levac went to a Toronto pain clinic for an injection of steroids for chronic back pain, the 68-year-old Fenelon Falls woman fell seriously ill. She was rushed to hospital by ambulance, she says, while falling in and out of consciousness and suffering excruciating pain.
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Chronic Pain Cases: Why it’s important to have a family doctor
If you keep up with the news, you will know there’s a shortage of family doctors. This shortage is more pronounced in rural or remote communities. Perhaps the notion of a shortage of family doctors isn’t accurate, but I’ll let the people at the Ministry of Health and the OMA debate that.
Auto Accident Benefits Changes Coming Again
Since 1990 auto insurance personal injury claims have been governed in Ontario by a no-fault system. By that it is meant that most compensation for injury in accidents comes from benefits paid under a government regulated standard Ontario auto policy. Before then, there were limited benefits available for medical expenses and loss of income from a person’s own insurer, but most compensation came from liability claims where a lawsuit was brought against the at-fault driver and vehicle owner where liability insurance covered drivers for such claims and paid out any victim who made a claim who was not the at-fault driver. http://www.
N.S. government takes parents to court over daughter’s insurance settlement
The parents of a teen who suffered severe brain damage in a car crash 18 years ago are trying to stop the Nova Scotia government from taking what’s left of her million-dollar insurance settlement.
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Independence and Self-Regulation: I’m OK but I’m Not So Sure About You!
Ottawa’s unjust approach to disability insurance
Clients feel scammed as alleged lawyer misconduct kept quiet
Clients of two lawyers accused of serious misconduct are outraged over being kept in the dark about their lawyers’ records, which they said derailed their cases and cost them thousands.
Driverless cars are possible, but not desirable
I am standing on the edge of Piazza Venezia – Venice Square – smack in the heart of old Rome, and am trying to imagine this seething ocean of cars, trucks, scooters, buses, bicycles, pedestrians and terrified tourists on Segways stuffed instead with diverless vehicles, and I can’t.
Driving simulator can teach you to dodge an insurance scam crash
“You’ve been the victim of a drive down.”
Wow. I never thought it would happen to me. In truth, I didn’t even know what a “drive down” was until I visited the Brampton Fall Fair today and tried out the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) Safety Mobile simulator.
Surgeons and GPs more likely to cause car accidents
Surgeons and General Practitioners are the most accident-prone drivers, according to an analysis of two million insurance claims that reveals an extraordinary concentration of problem driving among healthcare professionals.