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For those who have been involved in a motor vehicle accident and are dealing with an insurer, it may be reassuring to know that under Canadian law, an insurer has a legally-established duty of “good faith” towards its insured.
http://www.vandykelaw.ca/2017/
TORONTO – Motorcyclists in Ontario are three times more likely to be injured in a collision than people in automobiles, 10 times more likely to suffer serious injuries and those injuries will cost more to treat, a new study suggests.
A recent Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision on costs in a personal injury matter has “massive implications” for legal cost protection providers such as BICO and, more importantly, will improve access to justice for plaintiffs, says John Rossos, chairman and CEO of BridgePoint Risk Management Inc.
Just months ago the Wynne government stripped tetraplegics, amputees and brain injury survivors of important benefits (at the request of the insurance industry). However, in more recent news, the Supreme Court of Canada just made it easier for Plaintiffs to advance claims for mental/psychological damages.
More than 2,500 Canadians died from opioid-related overdoses in 2016, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. The situation is particularly grave in the West. This year, British Columbia alone is on track to see 1,400 deaths due to opioids. The province declared a state of emergency in April 2016, and Alberta followed suit in May 2017. But the opioid crisis is affecting the entire country, with Ontario having committed $222 million over three years to combat overdoses in August and Nova Scotia funding overdose kits through pharmacies since September.
KAWARTHA LAKES “Christmas depresses me beyond measure, because of all the things I feel I should be doing but I’m not able to do.”
That’s what ‘John’ (not his real name to protect his and his family’s privacy) says about times he has relied upon local food banks to help feed his family, which includes five children.
Fresh on the heels of the recent win for plaintiffs on the issue of disclosure in Jamieson v. Kapashesit1, we are pleased to announce another resounding plaintiff victory on the legal expense insurance front. In what will no doubt be a game changing decision on point, in Armstrong v Lakeridge Resort Ltd.2, Ontario Superior Court Justice Salmers rejected the existing case law, ordering the defendant to pay the BICO Legal Expense Insurance premium.
Opening up law firm ownership to non-lawyers would still be bad news for personal injury victims, says Toronto critical injury lawyer John McLeish after the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) reopened the debate on Alternative Business Structures (ABS).
The LSUC rejected a controversial proposal to allow non-lawyers to hold a minority interest in firms back in 2015 after encountering widespread opposition from within the profession.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/j
A new study suggests motorcycles account for 10 per cent of all motor vehicle deaths in the province, and cost the health care system six times the amount of car crashes.
Dr. Daniel Pincus, who works at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and is one of the authors of the study, told 680 NEWS that people need to realize that riding motorcycles has a higher risk of injury or death in an accident.
http://toronto.citynews.ca/201
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r
Brokers placing auto insurance in Newfoundland and Labrador should get in touch with politicians to put an ongoing review on their radar screen, and to let Insurance Bureau of Canada know whether they have any ideas on how to fix the system, IBC suggested this week.