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Soft tissue injuries like whiplash can go well beyond pain.
Being in a car accident is hard enough, but being injured in a car accident is worse. When you add pain and PTSD into the mix, what seemed like a simple soft tissue injury can quickly become a lifelong problem.
http://derekwilsonlaw.ca/what-
“It’s baby steps. I’d rather see better jobs, better wages, but let’s see what the government comes up with. I look forward to see what happens.”
The income payments are designed to encourage people to work. Recipients will keep what they earn, with their basic income payments decreasing by half of that amount.
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.c
Ontario law allows property insurers to deny innocent victims of spousal abuse recovery for property damage caused by the intentional acts of the abusers, according to recent judgment from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Ontario insurance providers and the provincial government are continuing to look for ways to reduce premiums. The prohibitive cost of car insurance in Ontario is under the spotlight again, and recently the province’s Ministery of Finance lambasted the situation by saying premiums remain the highest in Canada despite accident rates being relatively low.
The Ontario government announced Thursday it is “reviewing” 35 recommendations on auto insurance form made by the former head of the province’s government-run workers’ compensation insurance system, the same day an insurance defence lawyer warned that some of those recommendations are “extraordinary” and will have most lawyers “not sleeping at night.”
Lawyers say that while new changes to the rules around referral fees will likely bring increased transparency and clarity to the referral process, it remains to be seen how the new rules will be enforced.
The personal injury bar is facing a host of issues right now. A continuous reduction in accident benefits is a constant challenge, delays in access to the courts because of R. v. Jordan is a significant roadblock and, of course, especially in Ontario, there is the hot-button issue of misleading advertising.
http://www.canadianlawyermag.c
In a rare decision, an Ontario judge declined to award costs to an insurance company after dismissing a claim against it.
In Soczek v. Allstate, Allstate Insurance Company of Canada successfully argued that damage to a plaintiff’s house after her husband burned it down in an attempt to kill her did not fall under her insurance policy because of an exclusion clause
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/20