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The provincial attorney general’s failure to defend the constitutionality of its Minor Injury Guideline has helped open the floodgates to Charter challenges in accident benefit disputes, says a Toronto insurance lawyer.

http://www.lawtimesnews.com/author/michael-mckiernan/expect-more-charter-challenges-in-benefit-disputes-14918/

Toronto man Gideon Fekre has been found not guilty in the death of a 31-year-old woman who was killed on a Leslieville sidewalk in 2015.

Justice Peter Bawden found the Toronto man, who was 18 at the time, not guilty of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death on Tuesday afternoon in Ontario Superior Court.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gideon-fekre-sentenced-1.4412121

The critical decision on whether or not a patient will be forced to testify at the discipline hearing for the doctor accused of sexually abusing her now rests in the hands of a five-member discipline panel.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/11/21/medical-regulator-accused-of-abuse-of-process-in-trying-to-force-patient-to-testify-in-sex-abuse-case.html

After a car accident pain is a common problem. For some people the pain is transient and short lived. For others the pain is longer lasting but still improves with time, and for some it becomes a chronic and lifelong problem. Chronic pain is difficult to manage because it can seemingly ‘feed on itself’.

https://www.deutschmannlaw.com/blog/post/non-drug-treatments-for-pain

If you have had an accident and want to make a disability insurance claim you may have turned to the Internet for useful information to help you decide what type of claim you can make.

You may have tried to find out what is classed as a disability. You might have also have tried to establish what is considered a short-term disability and a long-term disability.

http://contelawyers.ca/understanding-the-difference-between-short-term-and-long-term-disability-insurance/

People receiving long-term disability benefits have enough to worry about. The last thing they need is to have their disability benefits cut off. After all, doesn’t your employee benefits booklet say you would get 66 per cent of your income each month if you became ill and were unable to do your job?

http://www.advocatedaily.com/bram-lecker-disability-benefits-cut-off.html

Toronto criminal lawyer Jordana Goldlist says the Canadian government needs to do more to regulate the prescription of fentanyl that’s causing a growing number of users to overdose amid a North American crisis.

“I cannot accept that there are legitimate reasons for prescribing, and therefore making available, such a strong narcotic that it is literally killing people every day,” she tells AdvocateDaily.com.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/jordana-goldlist-fentanyl-a-crisis-with-far-reaching-consequences.html

Earlier this fall the Government of Ontario released a document called “A Strong and Fair Ontario”. The document accompanied the 2017 Fall Statement by the government and addresses a wide variety of issues facing the residents of Ontario.

https://www.deutschmannlaw.com/blog/post/changes-coming-to-ontario-auto-insurance-to-protect-victims