Author Archives: Admin2

Fraud, overbilling, theft: Ontario’s rogue lawyers

by Admin2

According to law society documents, Vinti Sansanwal, at the time national claims director with HB Group insurance in Mississauga, would approve personal injury files for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than what had been negotiated with claimants.

Pachai, acting as the lawyer for the insurance company, altered documents to reflect the inflated bogus amounts, while sending off the true lower amounts to claimants. In one case, a claim was settled for only $5,000 but Pachai doctored the documents sent to the company to show it was $225,000.

The law society says Pachai and Sansanwal then split the excess settlement funds on a 50-50 basis. They did this 11 times between 2005 and 2007. The law society found Pachai kept close to half of the $1.5 million the scam raked in.

http://projects.thestar.com/broken-trust/case-files.html

 

FAIR cries foul over Bill 171 hearings

by Admin2

DesRoches continues that “it might be easier to think of those tens of thousands of people lined up at FSCO to have hearings as fakers and malingerers but the numbers don’t lie, they are a reflection of a broken system and not a reflection of rampant fraud in the system.

http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/fair-cries-foul-over-bill-171-hearings-177622.aspx

Horwath Misleads Voters: Orazietti

by Admin2

Provincial NDP Blocked Appointment to Financial Accountability Office, Stalled Legislation to Lower Auto Insurance Premiums

http://www.saultonline.com/2014/05/horwath-misleads-voters-orazietti/

IBAO’s telematics subsidiary ‘reached out’ to Alberta auto insurance regulator

by Admin2
Officials with the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO)’s telematics subsidiary have discussed usage-based auto insurance with the Alberta regulator and are urging Alberta’s brokers to tell carriers that brokers need to have access to policyholders’ telematics data.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/ibaos-telematics-subsidiary-reached-out-to-alberta-auto-insurance-regulator/1003051456/s7vw03Wsv64srM2vx/?ref=enews_CU&utm_source=CU&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CU-EN05082014

Partnership is the Best Weapon in the Battle Against Auto Insurance Fraud

by Admin2

Canadian auto insurers have a major problem with insurance fraud. The problem is also worsening substantially every year, and in Ontario alone it has reached a price tag of $1.6 billion a year (Robertson & Perkins, 2011)

https://www.westerndirect.ca/learning-centre/insurance-news-and-advice/view/687-partnership-is-the-best-weapon-in-the-battle-against-auto-insurance-fraud

Personal privacy eroded as public, private sectors share info

by Admin2
Personal information is flowing between the public and private sectors in unprecedented ways, posing fresh risks to privacy, says a new book on surveillance in Canada.
Data gathered for one purpose may easily be used for another when public and private organizations share data, flying in the face of fair information practices, says “Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada.”

http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1206131-personal-privacy-eroded-as-public-private-sectors-share-info

Is the government checking you out on Facebook?

by Admin2
“the public availability of personal information on the Internet does not render personal information non-personal. It is our view that departments should not access personal information on social media sites unless they can demonstrate a direct correlation to legitimate government business.”

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/is-the-government-checking-you-out-on-facebook-1.1812110

Proposed WSIB changes will hurt workers, advocates say

by Admin2

Workers’ advocates charge that hundreds of injured workers have, like Harris, been denied benefits for pre-existing medical conditions since 2010, when the former Dalton McGuinty government appointed David Marshall as WSIB president.

They blame Marshall’s marching orders “to reduce and ultimately retire” the board’s $12 billion unfunded liability, the difference between current funding levels and long-term payouts to injured workers. They say this financial imperative is behind a proposed new WSIB policy on pre-existing conditions that would “fundamentally change” the system and throw thousands of injured workers into poverty.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/05/07/proposed_wsib_changes_will_hurt_workers_advocates_say.html

J.D. Power Reports: One in 10 Canadian Customers Switch Auto Insurance Carriers

by Admin2

The study, now in its seventh year, measures insurance customer experiences with their primary auto insurer in Canada. Customer satisfaction is measured across five factors (in order of importance): interaction; price; policy offerings; billing and payment; and claims. Insurers are ranked in three provinces: Ontario, Alberta and Quebec.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140506005106/en/J.D.-Power-Reports-10-Canadian-Customers-Switch#.U2l5NPldXTo

Andrea Horwath’s Auto Insurance Credibility Problem

by Admin2

Andrea Horwath’s credibility on auto insurance rates has been publicly called into question…by one of her own candidates.

http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1350321/andrea-horwath-s-auto-insurance-credibility-problem