In what lawyers are calling an “extremely rare” move, the Ontario Court of Appeal has expressly overruled one of its own past decisions.
After grappling with what the court called “a difficult question,” the five-judge panel concluded in Fernandes v. Araujo that an old insurance law case dealing with vicarious liability was wrongly decided and should be overruled.
The no-fault deductibles in Ontario’s Insurance Act in tort claims for damages arising from car accidents have been amended and increased to account for inflation and will be increasing slightly ever year in the future, Canadian insurance litigation firm Dutton Brock LLP reported on Thursday.
If you’re an Ontario litigator and thought suing your client for fees in Small Claims Court based upon a written retainer agreement was an option, then take a read of Justice Nordheimer’s decision in Jane Conte Professional Corporation v. Josephine Smith, 2014 ONSC 6009 (CanLII), (Div.Ct.).
Restitutio ad integrum (To be made whole again)
Car insurance companies want to record and reward you for good driving habits if you let them put a small tracking device in your car.
But what happens if they record your bad driving habits too?
Stefan Savage, the engineering professor who oversaw the project, stressed these attacks haven’t occurred in real life. Nevertheless, he told CNN, “this is a class of device that should be considered the same way we consider a medical device. It’s a dangerous object that needs to be designed with care.”
http://www.citopbroker.com/news/telematics-devices-can-be-hacked-8780
In Canada, preventable injuries, such as motor vehicle accidents, falls and fires, killed 15,866 people and left 231,596 Canadians hospitalized in 2010, according to The Cost of Injury in Canada report produced by Parachute, a national charity that works towards stopping preventable injuries.
http://www.neinstein.com/category/blogs/accident-benefits-claims/
As the 2015 Parapan Am Games get underway, Ontario’s Liberal government is quietly cutting insurance benefits to the province’s most disabled, while filling the pockets of insurance companies.
“seems so stupid on behalf of the government”
http://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=676085&binId=1.1158693&playlistPageNum=1
TORONTO – New Democrat health critic France Gelinas slammed the Wynne government Monday over its plan to cut 50 medical residency spots beginning next year.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/08/10/liberals-making-doctor-shortage-problem-worse-ndp