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As accident benefits decrease and attendant care benefits become optional, family members who are out of pocket for the care of a loved one are increasingly looking to the provisions of the Family Law Act, which allows them to sue for recovery of damages.
The federal Privacy Commissioner has reprimanded an insurance company for violating consumer privacy rights related to an incident involving a car-crash victim.
The Personal Insurance Company was found to have accessed the credit rating of a senior citizen, with the Privacy Commissioner arguing there was no need to do so. In defence, the company says it needed the information to find fraudulent claims activity. Matching credit worthiness can help determine if a customer is likely to cheat insurers.
The impending decision in Kapoor v Kuzmanovski may revolutionize jury trials in motor vehicle accident litigation, severely limiting who may serve on a jury.
A bill proposing a minimum $2,000 fine, under Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act, for careless driving causing death or bodily harm, will be re-introduced in the legislature, a Hamilton-area MPP said Thursday.
The Insurance Brokers Association of New Brunswick (IBANB) became the second provincial broker association to suspend its partnership with Aviva Canada in three months last week after its board voted in favour of the suspension of Aviva’s direct-to-consumer, online options that it believes compete with the broker channel.
Hiring a lawyer to handle your personal injury case is a serious matter that requires careful consideration. What kind of questions should you ask yourself and others in order to make an informed choice? How would you go about choosing one – especially if you’ve never needed one before?
In Moore v. Sweet, the court set aside a motion judge’s decision to grant $250,000 in proceeds of a dead man’s insurance policy to a former wife, Michelle Moore, who had been paying policy premiums, instead of giving them to his common law wife, Risa Sweet.
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The Ontario Court of Appeal has revived the chances for recovery by workers who have had their workers’ compensation benefits cut because of preexisting conditions.
A class action against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, which was previously quashed by the Superior Court of Justice, is alive again.
In today’s case (Wee v. Fowler) the Plaintiff was involved in a vehicle collision and sued for damages. In the course of the lawsuit an order was made that the Plaintiff attend a defence medical exam. When the Plaintiff attended the doctor required a consent form to be signed. The Plaintiff refused and the exam did not take place.