We believe personal injury lawyers should disclose their fee arrangements to the insurance regulator so that the regulator has access to and can better understand all costs associated with the auto insurance product.
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/opinion-story/5592594-lawyers-fees-not-transparent/
http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/opinion-story/5588567-insurance-companies-reaping-profits/
Do you know anyone who died in a car accident in winter conditions on a provincial highway? If so, we want to hear from you. Contact the Toronto Sun at 416-947-2211 or email us
TORONTO == The price of cheaper road maintenance was less safe winter highway driving conditions, Ontario Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk has found.
Early data suggests a spike in highway deaths in the province in 2013 due to icy road conditions.
Her special report on winter highway maintenance, tabled with the Ontario Legislature Wednesday, concludes that service levels have been dropping for over the past five years.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/29/highway-deaths-spike-after-liberal-maintenance-cuts-ag
Last Thursday, Government House Leader, Yasir Naqvi, presented a proposal to both opposition parties that would provide 6 days of hearings – three times the average number of days for budgets over the last 25 years.
http://www.northumberlandview.ca/index.php?module=news&type=user&func=display&sid=34188
In health care we have a similar unfair structural divide — the advantage of procedural care over cognitive care. This divide supports an inequity that is out of keeping with population health needs and the major causes of disability that keep people out of the workforce and impact to our GDP. It’s out of keeping with value.
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/thomas-ungar-the-health-care-payment-game-is-rigged
Ontario is a wealthy society — and Kathleen Wynne is imposing austerity on people who work for low wages and who receive social assistance, rather than raising revenue by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
http://nupge.ca/content/12232/put-food-ontario-budget-information-picket
Media Release April 28 2015 The 2015 budget is an absolute windfall for Ontario’s insurers who are the beneficiaries of Building Ontario Up by building up their already substantial profits on the backs of Ontario’s seriously injured auto accident victims.
Our government, under the guise of protecting victims, is proposing to cut over a $1 million dollars in coverage for the most seriously injured among us while pretending that they are fiscally responsible. You don’t have to be an accountant to see that the government is doing the industry a big financial favour and doing it on the backs of some of the most disabled individuals in Ontario. It’s a disgusting and unacceptable way to treat these vulnerable individuals.
The Government of Ontario announced in the 2015 budget that it intends to amend the Insurance Act and its regulations as follows:
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will lead to a major disruption in the auto insurance sector, affecting the industry’s entire business model, suggested a speaker at the Insurance Telematics Canada 2015 conference on Friday.
In early February, 32-year-old Swati Shial was diagnosed with cervical spondylosis, a degenerative weakening of the spinal disc usually triggered by an incorrect posture or by overusing neck muscles.
The Ontario Rehab Alliance, representing more than 4500 healthcare providers, is profoundly disappointed and worried by the Government of Ontario’s proposed changes to standard Auto Insurance Benefits in last week’s Budget.
“We worry about the future wellbeing of the 65,000 fellow Ontarians who are injured in motor vehicle crashes every year”, says Laurie Davis, the association’s Executive Director.
“These cuts to basic accident benefits will have a devastating effect on the most severely injured and their families. We will see injured Ontarians whose horrific crashes result in quadriplegia, severe brain injuries and amputations live the rest of their lives with little to no dignity. Their family’s futures will be forever changed as they have to rededicate their lives to becoming full time caregivers in light of the deep cuts to the benefits.”