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TORONTO — Updated opioid-prescribing guidelines released Monday encourage doctors to avoid giving the powerful narcotics as a first-line treatment to patients with chronic, non-cancer pain and instead try other medications or non-pharmaceutical therapies to prevent a host of potential harms associated with the widely used drugs.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/n
For everyone, there are times when a dark cloud just seems to be following you around. You may not even even know why. While we don’t mean to minimize the value of medication for those who experience this on a daily basis, UCLA neuroscientist Alex Korb, author of The Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time, has some insights that might just get you back on the sunny side. It’s all got to do with neuroscience.
http://bigthink.com/robby-berm
Six years ago, a head-on car crash in Surrey, B.C., left Mikaela Wilhelmson’s bones and future shattered.
A witness at the scene remembers her saying: “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”
Since then, the young woman had been fighting for compensation. Recently she was awarded a $4-million settlement from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), along with a precedent-setting $100,000 award to be used for the future cost of surrogacy because her massive injuries left her unable to bear children.
The more you know, the better you’ll do at a hearing.
Read: Solicitor Client Assessments – Ontario Bar Association paper
A recent decision of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (the “Commissioner”), finding that analyzing a customer’s credit rating does little to help counter insurance fraud, will seem shocking to many in the insurance industry. In making this decision, the Commissioner has denounced something that is common industry practice in assessing the legitimacy of claims.1
One of the more confusing aspects of adjusting an accident benefits claim is dealing with the numerous amendments to the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS). Not surprisingly, during the life of an accident benefits claim, the SABS may be amended several times, each time enacting new provisions that may (or may not) affect the benefits available to a claimant.
A Brantford man who was injured in a bizarre accident in Ancaster nine years ago has won $2.4 million in a civil lawsuit against two snowplow companies.
On April 20, a Brantford jury awarded Greg McKnight money for pain and suffering, lost income and future health-care costs.
http://www.brantfordexpositor.
For the record, I’m not talking about ability. Rather, I’m referring to experience and specialties. Most lawyers worth their salt are competent in interpreting the law—they tend to know a little bit about a lot of areas of the law—but the importance of specialization cannot be overstated.
http://derekwilsonlaw.ca/why-y
There’s nothing wrong with the use of “consensus reports” in personal injury matters as long as they contain accurate information, says Toronto orthopedic spine and trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Ford.
The Ontario 2017 budget included an important change to proof of auto insurance. The province will seek to introduce electronic pink slip replacements in the form of electronic documentation. It is an important step that is viewed as long overdue.