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A recent Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) ruling found elements of the Minor Injury Guide (MIG) in the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule unconstitutional, but it won’t stop it from being applied in chronic pain cases, says Toronto personal injury lawyer David Derfel.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/d
You may have heard the term intentional tort at some point in time. If you haven’t, you’ve likely never filed a personal injury claim.
Any time you file a personal injury claim in court, you’re dealing with tort law. It’s important to understand what this branch of the law is in order to make the most out of your claim.
There are 2 types of torts in Canadian Tort Law: intentional and unintentional torts.
Law Times has two stories this week that relate to expert testimony or expert witnesses.
In one, the Ontario Divisional Court upheld the dismissal of a lawyer’s claim against a handwriting expert for defamation. In Deverett Law Offices v. Pitney, lawyer Michael Deverett’s firm brought a claim against a handwriting analyst who had done work for a former client.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/au
There are currently 12,900 area residents collecting the support payments for those with physical or mental health issues. In his 22 years in the field Bruno Ierullo, Windsor’s executive director of employment and social services, can’t recall the number being higher — though the city doesn’t have records going back that far.
The average number of cases for 2015 was 11,974.
The Kanetix.ca map showing car insurance rates by neighbourhood is something every Torontonian should see.
It looks strikingly like maps showing Toronto’s highest concentrations of poverty.
Angry red the company uses to show highest rates covers North Etobicoke, the Jane Street corridor in North York, the former City of York, Scarborough along Eglinton Avenue and north of Hwy. 401.
In 2015, I wrote an article about the imminent arrival and disruptive effect of autonomous vehicles on personal injury law. Two years later, such vehicles are still not on our roads and personal injury lawyers remain employed.
A Toronto woman’s insurance claim for her totalled SUV has been denied because the company says the occasional deliveries she makes for her small company voids her policy.
“I was in shock because I didn’t think I did anything wrong,” said Adrienne Winterhelt, who was in an accident about two weeks ago on Hwy. 401 while on the way to visit a friend.
“Insane.”
“An eternity.”
“Excruciating.”
These are just some of the descriptors patients and doctors across Canada are using as they reveal the wait times they’ve encountered for referrals, elective surgery, in emergency rooms, and to get a family doctor. Using the hashtag #CanadaWAITS, Canadians are shedding light on what some are calling a serious problem with the current health-care system.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2
Dr. Andrea Furlan is an expert in pain management. The Toronto MD and researcher has spent years treating patients with chronic pain, and often that meant prescribing them opioids.
But lately, she’s relying on her prescription pad less and less.
“These days have been different. I think I became an expert in de-prescribing opioids,” she tells Dr. Brian Goldman, host of White Coat, Black Art.
What do fibromyalgia, a condition that includes chronic muscle pain, and S&M have in common?
Not much, except that a Mississauga rheumatologist saw fit to ask a female patient about the sexual practice when she came to see him for treatment.
https://www.thestar.com/news/g