Reasons for judgement were released today by the BC Supreme Court, Nanaimo Registry, assessing damages for chronic migraine headaches along with a low back injury caused by a collision.
In today’s case (MacDonald v. Joseph) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2011 head on collision caused by the Defendant. The Plaintiff suffered a variety of injuries, some of which recovered but was left with a legacy of chronic migraine headaches and low back pain.
A new, Ontario-wide study shows that rates of hospital readmission following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) are greater than other chronic diseases and injuries and are higher than previously reported.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-05-re-hospitalization-traumatic-brain-injury-higher.html
Ontario’s Liberal government — through proposed changes to the province’s auto insurance system and recent regulation amendments — has dealt several blows to plaintiffs that are certain to make life more difficult for injured individuals, says Toronto personal injury lawyer Emily Casey.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/government-clawbacks-will-hurt-accident-victims-casey.html
In the July 29th, 2015 decision in Lica v. Dhaliwal, Price J ordered that State Farm, the insurer of the Defendants provide the reasons and basis for the denial of coverage. State Farm insured the Defendants in this action. However, State Farm denied coverage and added itself as a statutory third party in the action. However, State Farm did not provide detailed reasons for the denial of coverage.
In July, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario reported that auto insurance premiums increased in the second quarter of 2015, despite the Liberal government’s pledge otherwise.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/the-bad-habits-driving-policyholder-premiums-up-194749.aspx
84% of industries experience this type of fraud, but insurance professionals witness it most often. Here’s how brokers can stop it.
TORONTO – Tawfiqul Alam says he was only a few weeks into his new gig as an UberX driver when a crash totalled his minivan and left him injured and uninsured.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/18/driver-eyes-suing-uber-after-crash
A slew of prescription opioids, most notably Purdue Pharma Canada’s Hydromorph Contin, have taken the mantle from oxycodone and are proving as addictive and dangerous.
A St. John’s man who has spent more than three decades enduring poverty and pain as a result of a workplace injury says he’s considering cancelling his compensation payments altogether.
Why don’t they just make the process simple? I have no idea. The forms are created by the government, but are heavily influenced by the lobbying efforts of large insurance companies. So, the forms, along with the questions in the forms are skewed from the outset to create a bias against innocent accident victims and in favour of large, deep pocked insurance companies.