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Smith, 26, is a wheelchair athlete and a motivational speaker who has inspired more than 750,000 schoolkids, but also the Queen, Princess Diana, Drake and Hulk Hogan. He had tea with Nelson Mandela and has travelled the world, Paris to Japan. He has changed countless lives, and saved a few. He has endured 27 surgeries, untold stares and more than one able-bodied idiot.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/18/no-limbs-no-limit

The Ministry of Finance is consulting on SABS changes previously announced in the 2015 Ontario Budget.  The changes listed below are listed in the government’s Regulatory Registry.  The consultation period ends on June 29, 2015 and the government plans to implement the proposed changes on September 1, 2015.

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We take you now to a dark land where fraud is rife, corruption abounds and the government seems powerless. No, not some calcified dictatorship in Africa or South America. This is Ontario, home to Canada’s worst auto insurance system, a vast subculture of lawyers, health-care operators, inept regulators and gaming politicians who cannot or will not come to grips with a regulatory failure that costs motorists billions.

http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/terence-corcoran-why-ontarios-auto-insurance-system-is-a-car-wreck

In today’s case (Prothero v. Togeretz) the Plaintiff was injured in a collision and sued for damages.  In the course of the lawsuit the Plaintiff’s physician wished for the Plaintiff to have an MRI and asked that this be obtained privately to expedite matters.  ICBC refused to pay for this service so the Plaintiff arranged to do so privately.  The Plaintiff did produce the MRI images arguing these were privileged.

http://bc-injury-law.com/blog/private-mri-obtained-diagnositic-puroses-producable-injury-litigation?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IcbcLaw+%28ICBC+Law%29

According to Ontario’s Liberal government, the 2015 Budget is about “enhancing the quality of life of people” and striving to “build a fair society, with strong health care” and “support people with disabilities”. Ironically, the proposed amendments to the Insurance Act regulations will likely defeat this very purpose by draining our health care system, denying needed treatment to those who need it most and lining the insurance industry’s pockets further.

http://otlablog.com/ontario-budget-part-2/

The “car accident business” is not only big and expensive, it is ever-changing and ever-evolving. A co-ordinated campaign by all players in the property and casualty industry is critically important to gain ground and drive back auto insurance fraud estimated to cost more than $1 billion a year in Ontario.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/the-war-on-staged-collisions/1003613357/?type=Print%20Archives

Ontario is moving to provide some home-care clients with pots of money they could spend as they choose on various in-home health services, a model known as “self-directed care,” that would be a first in Canadian home care.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-health-minister-expected-to-address-scathing-report-on-home-care/article24415170/

It reported on the Sunshine List and the reaction of high-income earners. According to this report, over 111,000 public sector workers were paid more than $100,000 last year. Many who made the list were unhappy about the $100,000 threshold to disclose their income. This CBC news report did not include the reaction of low-income earners regarding the subject of the Sunshine List.

http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion-story/5614737-low-income-earners-take-on-the-sunshine-list/