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PwC advises insurers to outsource claims ‘where appropriate’

PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP is advising insurance companies to integrate advanced telephony systems with their claims systems, to “share talent” with large groups of claims adjusters and to use analytics to understand their customers’ patterns of behaviour.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/pwc-advises-insurers-to-outsource-claims-where-appropriate/1003218570/

The silver bullet for Ontario auto insurance

There isn’t one silver bullet needed to cure Ontario’s ailing auto insurance system, but several; and right now the chambers are empty, says the president of one of the province’s largest auto insurers.

http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/the-silver-bullet-for-ontario-auto-insurance-181459.aspx

Driverless Cars Will Create Cities with No Parking Lots, Congestion, Collisions and No Car Insurance

Cars changed the world and our cities in the 20th Century by freeing people of the limitations of their geography.  People now have the freedom to live, work, shop and travel almost anywhere they want. The car industry has caused suburbs to grow, and made the development of road and highway systems necessary.

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HCDB standard report August 2014

Ontario Health Claims Database HCDB Standard Report August 2014 with data on claims costs

HCDB standard report 2014h1 – final

Cost Proportionality Not Always Kind to Injured Plaintiffs

When it comes to the issue of legal costs, the proportionality concept is a welcome feature in civil litigation but it can serve to penalize personal injury plaintiffs with modest personal injury claims.

http://www.thomsonrogers.com/accident-benefit-reporter-updater-issue-20?utm_source=2014+TR+In-House+List&utm_campaign=4e5d691309-ABR+Updater+Issue+20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5acf6d43a2-4e5d691309-410815605

Supreme Court denies insurer leave to appeal ruling on auto insurance family protection endorsement

The Supreme Court of Canada recently dismissed an application, from Lombard General Insurance Company of Canada, for leave to appeal a court ruling against Lombard over the limitation period on claims under the Ontario auto family protection…

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/supreme-court-denies-insurer-leave-to-appeal-ruling-on-auto-insurance-family-protection-endorsement/1003216525/

What about victims? It’s time to focus more on those hurt in automobile crashes, less on the concerns of insurance companies

Isn’t it odd that when we read or talk about auto insurance, we focus on premiums or fraud?

We rarely read or talk about the interests of accident victims.

Maybe that’s because it would be politically embarrassing to discuss their interests.

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/08/16/its-time-to-focus-more-on-those-hurt-in-automobile-crashes-less-on-the-concerns-of-insurance-companies

Social Security Tribunal struggling with massive backlog: documents

Ailing, disabled and unemployed Canadians seeking benefits have been facing increasingly long waits to have their appeals heard, even as full-time positions on the government’s woefully backlogged Social Security Tribunal have remain unfilled.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/social-security-tribunal-struggling-with-massive-backlog-documents-1.1961824#ixzz3AaDM5MIK

Ontario’s 20-year graduated licensing system has saved lives, but experts say more can be done

In 2012, an internal Ontario Ministry of Transportation assessment concluded teen G2 drivers who had completed driver’s training were 12 per cent less likely to be involved in a fatal collision than a teen driver without training.

Collision reporting centres give impaired drivers time to sober up: police union

Not only are police courting liability claims with the advent of its collision reporting centres, but they also might be giving drunk drivers and others involved in accidents a way to avoid prosecution, says an Ottawa Police Association spokesman.