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I write this letter to those in Ontario who have yet to receive their latest bill for automobile insurance. Mine arrived last week and I was shocked to find that my liability coverage was reduced from $3 million to $1.21 million.
http://www.nugget.ca/2017/03/3
It doesn’t matter that personal injury lawyers have a reputation for being predatory ambulance-chasers, more concerned with making a buck than with seeking justice; nor does it matter that this reputation is not entirely undeserved, even if it may get exaggerated by pop culture portrayals and the tasteless ways some injury lawyers choose to advertise their services. It is still a very bad policy idea to legally cap lawyers’ contingency fees at 15 per cent.
A recent Ontario Superior Court ruling has provided some clarity on how the fault attribution rules ought to be applied to loss transfer disputes in the case of chain-reaction accidents, Barrie personal injury lawyer Steve Rastin writes in The Lawyer’s Daily.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/s
Only one in three Canadians who experience a mental health problem or illness seeks and receives services or treatment. The wrong time to prepare for a crisis is when you’re in it. We need to better equip people to identify a mental health problem, and teach them when to ask for help and how to find it.
James Strachan is fighting to get his licence back amid a bureaucratic nightmare that stems from paying a speeding ticket a couple of months late.
The federal Privacy Commissioner recently ruled that an insurer handling a car collision claim had violated a customer’s privacy rights by accessing the individual’s credit rating for no particular reason.
We agree that referral fees had gotten out of hand and we called for modest, reasonable limits on referral fees. We called for restrictions on legal ads to ensure that the public is not misled. We are heartened that the Law Society, which started reviewing these practices nearly two years ago (not just last month, as the article suggests), recently tightened the rules to address many of these issues, before Bill 103 was introduced.
As an aside, care to know why insurers would prefer the LAT over the Courts? Firstly, it costs an accident victim $100 to apply to the LAT. FSCO applications were FREE for accident victims under the old regime. Secondly, there are NO COSTS awarded to the losing party. An insurer can act with a wanton disregard for an accident victim’s rights in only in the most rare of circumstances will the LAT make a costs award against them for having acted wrongly
For most, travelling south for a winter vacation away from the cold weather, work, and other responsibilities is a trip to paradise. But travelers should be aware that if an accident or a tragedy strikes, it may be difficult, if not impossible to seek proper compensation for the loss.
http://otlablog.com/stay-safe-