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You’ve been injured in a car accident, or you’ve made a claim for Long Term Disability Benefits.

Benefits have not yet been paid. The insurance is giving you a tough time. They’re treating you like you’ve done something wrong; when all you’ve done is been in the wrong place at the wrong time resulting in serious injuries. All you want are the benefits you need to help you get better, and make ends meet. After all, isn’t that what insurance is for? Isn’t that why you’ve paid mountains of money in premiums all of these years.

http://www.torontoinjurylawyerblog.com/2015/06/insurer-medical-examinations-in-the-context-of-your-injury-or-disability-case-but-do-i-really-have-to-attend-ontario.html#more-720

Your editorial underreports the details we have been, and will be, making public about physician “undertakings.” An undertaking is a binding, enforceable promise (similar to a contract) given by doctors that describes the conditions under which they can practise medicine. Doctors may enter an undertaking to restrict their practice where there is a concern about that practice area and they agree to practice differently – or not practice at all.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2015/06/25/clarifying-physician-undertakings.html

“I think there was a realization that a consensus model would be a way to effect the change that we need to make,” says Stockwoods LLP’s Brian Gover, chairman of The Advocates’ Society’s civil trials task force that came up with the 16 best practices for civil litigation in Ontario.

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/2756/advocates-society-offers-way-forward-on-improving-litigation-climate.html

Traditional insurance providers should not overlook how data analytics can be used to transform customer satisfaction, but are not fully leveraging the data they already have, suggests a new report from Capgemini Consulting.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/insurers-must-seize-big-data-opportunity-in-light-of-low-customer-satisfaction-levels-increasing/1003690871/

Accident Benefit Coalition Victim Survey is for Accident Victims who were injured in Ontario Motor Vehicle Collisions (MVCs). The purpose is to collect information regarding victims’ experience in regards to obtaining Ontario Accident Benefits from insurers. Absolutely no personal information is collected or shared.

In what he calls a “slugging match,” a renowned attorney and Toronto Sun columnist has drawn attention to the escalating tension brewing among auto insurers, industry associations and lawyers

http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/legal-community-continues-to-lambast-auto-insurers-192433.aspx

That is among the messages from RBC Insurance, which Tuesday released survey results showing 72% of respondents admit to some form of distracted driving, although almost nine in 10 have noticed the behaviour in other drivers.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/drivers-admit-to-distracted-driving-but-more-likely-to-notice-bad-behaviour-in-others-rbc-insurance/1003677580/s7vw03Wsv64srM2vx/?ref=enews_CU&utm_source=CU&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CU-EN06172015

The global insurance industry is at a “pivotal juncture” as it grapples with changing customer behaviour, new technologies and new distribution and business models, suggests a new report published by PwC on Monday.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/disruption-is-the-new-reality-in-the-global-insurance-industry-pwc-report/1003678267/s7vw03Wsv64srM2vx/?ref=enews_CU&utm_source=CU&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CU-EN06172015

Toronto, Ontario — June 16, 2015 — Police in Ontario’s York Region just north of Toronto have made a spate of arrests following a spike in the number of false accident reports made at the region’s collision reporting. The authorities released an advisory reminding the public that reporting a false collision is a criminal offence and also suggested it was a collision repair facility advising clients to make the fake claims.

http://www.collisionrepairmag.com/news/collision-repair/17436-rash-of-false-collision-reports-in-york-region