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Recent months have seen an unprecedented wave of negative coverage of personal injury lawyers. Much of the coverage has focused on the perceived prevalence of excessive or confusing fee arrangements and in particular contingency fees — the familiar “you don’t pay unless we win” deal in which a lawyer’s fee is contingent on achieving a financial recovery for the client.
https://www.thestar.com/opinio
The Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO) has released a statement saying it supports MPP Mike Colle’s Private Members Bill 103, Personal Injury and Accident Victims Protection Act, 2017, introduced in the Ontario Legislature on March 8, 2017.
http://www.citopbroker.com/new
A private member’s bill seeks to put a limit on Ontario lawyers’ contingency fees.
Bill 103 was introduced by Mike Colle, a Liberal MPP for Eglinton-Lawrence. If it is passed into law, the bill would amend the Law Society Act and the Solicitors Act in matters related to personal injury claims and client arrangements.
With growing scrutiny on expert witnesses, it’s important for medical specialists who prepare reports and testify before the courts in personal injury cases to adhere to evidence-based thinking and objectivity, says Toronto orthopedic spine and trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Ford.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/m
The decision of B.F. v Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, LAT File No.: 16-000433/AABS, highlights the importance of complying with the terms of Orders issued by the Licence Appeal Tribunal (“LAT”), and the consequences of failing to comply with such Orders.
One hopes that Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi took a look at an Ontario Divisional Court ruling issued recently.
The ruling in Gilbert’s LLP v. David Dixon Inc., 2017 ONSC 1345 (CanLii) is a sharp rebuke regarding the current state of the province’s assessment office.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/20
Not only should the general public be prevented from learning the identities of Ontario’s top-billing doctors, but so should a three-judge panel that has been asked to overturn an order for the names to be publicly disclosed, a lawyer representing some of the physicians has argued.
After she was hit by a garbage truck in 2012, doctors told Margaret Harvey’s husband she had only a 30 per cent chance of survival.
Harvey pulled through, but the road to a full recovery would prove long and difficult, both physically and emotionally.
Question: I’m in my 50s and work two jobs to make ends meet. I also have some health problems and I’ve been prescribed several medications. But I sometimes find it hard to pay for my drugs. What am I supposed to do it when I can’t afford them?
Answer: You should start by having a discussion with your doctor.
http://healthydebate.ca/person
After decades of managing costs for employers, it’s time for workers’ compensation professionals and public policymakers to turn their attention to the needs of injured workers and think of themselves more as players in a broader safety net, workers’ compensation experts were told last week.
http://www.insurancejournal.co