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Legal clinics have launched human rights challenges regarding the disability benefit rate two clients are receiving.
The challenges relate to the monthly amount received by two disabled men who get both their meals and room from their landlord through the Ontario Disability Support Program.
For years now, injured workers and frontline advocates have been sounding the alarm that Ontario’s Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) has been “getting its financial house in order” through austerity and cost-cutting measures. Whether it be from slashing compensation for lost wages, denying healthcare treatment and medication, or refusing to recognize mental health injuries, the cuts have come squarely on the backs of injured workers.
Food banks visits in Toronto are back to levels seen during the height of the recession almost 10 years ago, according to the newest “Who’s Hungry” report by the Daily Bread Food Bank, with usage by seniors like Davison increasing by 27 per cent.
According to the report, many seniors don’t seem to be receiving all the federal benefits they are entitled to. In particular, many are not receiving the Guaranteed Income Supplement — a program that is also excluding newcomer families.
FAIR response to Fair Benefits, Fairly Delivered September 15 2017
The public and the government know little to nothing about insurer profits and what they do with our premium dollars. This is very much a concern when it comes to the quality of coverage. We only know what insurers tell us about their finances and there’s no transparency and so no ability to find out. That’s a big gap in knowledge when making decisions about coverage that will affect the treatment of tens of thousands of Ontario’s traumatically injured patients every year.
If the goal is for the “government to provide a guaranteed safety net for those injured in auto accidents” then why are we using the insurer model and not our own patient model? If recovery is the driver behind the proposed changes then the perspective must change too. Accident victims must be seen and treated as the patients they are, the traumatically injured whose lives are turned upside down by a sudden and unexpected event.
When moral injury hits, it hits hard and can have a long lasting emotional and psychological impact.
In my work with Police/first responders and veterans, I felt that more awareness and attention should be brought to the concept of moral injury and the devastating pain and suffering it brings to a human being.
The decision of Master Jolley in David v. Tangri touches on the interplay between civil tort matters and accident benefits disputes at the LAT. It also provides a comprehensive summary of the purpose and consequence of the deemed undertaking rule.
The deemed undertaking rule, Rule 30.1.01 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, prohibits the use of evidence and information for any other purpose other than those of the proceeding in which the evidence was obtained.
Herby Graveline was injured in a car accident on November 11, 2009. He applied for SABs from Intact Insurance but when the parties were unable to resolve their disputes through mediation Mr. Graveline applied for arbitration at the FSCO
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The Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) is advocating for better bicycle paths and public education to prevent death and injury. Statistics from the United States show the cost of treating bicycle injuries is increasing and reached $24.4 billion for the year 2013.