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Before September 1, 2010, if you were injured in a car crash, your basic auto insurance would provide you with $100,000 of coverage to pay for needed medical and rehabilitation benefits to get you back to work and recover from your injuries. This basic coverage would cover you for 10 years.

http://inquinte.ca/story/letter-of-the-law-benefits-cut-so-why-are-premiums-still-high

“I was always interested in the knights defending the weak, the oppressed against the oppressor,” says Rastin, managing partner of Rastin & Associates, a litigation firm with offices in Barrie, Midland, Orillia, Collingwood and Owen Sound. “I’ve always viewed the type of work that we do as being the closest thing to being a modern knight in our society.”

http://www.advocatedaily.com/steve-rastin-rastin-aims-to-be-accident-victims-knight-in-shining-armour.html

The telephone is old technology. Recent reports have shown that speaking by phone may be on the way out. However, the telephone is still an important part of the toolkit for tribunals in ensuring access to justice. Videoconferencing is the (relatively) new flavour in administrative justice, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the telephone as an accessible and technologically easier tool.

http://www.slaw.ca/2017/03/03/hold-the-phone-telephone-hearings-and-access-to-justice/

For those working in the personal injury and medical-legal fields, you will be familiar with the new License Appeal Tribunal (LAT).  This LAT, effective April 1, 2016 was FSCO’s solution to long wait lists in the previous SABS mediation process whereby insurers and claimants essentially try to resolve disputes about claimant’s benefits, rehabilitation, or other denials and discrepancies. 

http://solutionsforliving.ca/2017/03/ot-success-at-the-lat.html

A visit to Brantford may cost more than visitors bargain for.

When the 2017 budget passed at the end of January, the City of Brantford approved a motor vehicle collision fee for nonresidents in the fire department’s budget.

http://www.brantnews.com/news-story/7164032-update-fire-chief-won-t-issue-fee-for-nonresident-car-accidents-until-discretionary-bylaw-is-in-eff/

Does an ATV become an “automobile” under Ontario insurance law if it is involved in an accident outside Ontario?

In Benson v. Belair, an Ontario resident fell off the back of an All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. He sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. The ATV, owned and operated by a BC resident, was not required to be insured under an automobile policy in BC and it was not insured.

http://www.samislaw.com/atvs–automobiles–and-jurisdictions–oh-my?utm_content=buffer9013d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.WLt3lbk_nok.buffer

Maxine wants people who think the province’s ODSP benefits are enough to live three months in her shoes.

Those shoes were a gift from a friend. So was the jacket she wore as Maxine and others demonstrated outside a Weston-area office to argue Ontario Works and the Ontario Disability Support Program payments are too low.

http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-story/7167836-ontario-works-and-odsp-aren-t-enough-to-live-on-toronto-residents-say/?platform=hootsuite

It has been obvious for a long time that the majority of the national press have colluded with the UK government to successfully manipulate the British public regarding the ongoing ‘welfare reforms’, which really means welfare destruction.

http://www.welfareweekly.com/demolition-of-uk-welfare-state-planned-with-corporate-america/