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Aviva Canada says Ontario auto fraud has gotten worse
Canada’s second-largest insurer has issued a loud and clear warning about the pervasiveness of auto insurance fraud.
Driverless cars will clip litigators
Personal injury lawyers beware; the driverless car will likely wipe out automobile litigation as we know it today.
It’s time that auto insurers cleaned up their own house:- ‘Autobody shop scams uncovered by AVIVA’ – and stop using fraud as their excuse!
March is the well-financed IBC fraud campaign month re fraud against auto insurers. To ensure the public gets it, and in preparation for premium hikes, insurer AVIVA, released a study of ‘pervasive’ auto body shop scams. This is the insurer “whose own tactics in fighting legitimate claims have come under fire by the courts.” (“Insurance company uncovers ‘pervasive’ auto body shop scams”, Colin Perkel, Waterloo Region Record, March 12,2018, p A3). As I point out in my book, “So You Think You’re Covered! The Insurance Industry Rip-Off”:
Report: Car Insurance Prices Rise in Alberta, Decline in Ontario
TORONTO, March 13, 2018 /CNW/ – Today, LowestRates.ca launched its 2018 Auto Insurance Price Index report, the country’s only price index that uses proprietary data to track the average cost Canadians pay for car insurance on a quarterly basis. The index uses the hundreds of thousands of quotes processed annually by LowestRates.ca, an online rate comparison tool for insurance, mortgages, loans and credit card rates, to collect the data.
A Season in Hell: self-reps speak about the Ontario License Appeal Tribunal
If you buy a newly-built home in Ontario and find construction defects in it, you may be refused compensation by Ontario’s monopoly warranty programme, Tarion. You may then end up as a self-represented litigant (SRL) fighting Tarion and the builder at the License Appeal Tribunal (LAT) to try to get your home fixed.
Pedestrian deaths won’t end as long as Toronto panders to cars and drivers
More than one pedestrian a week has been killed on Toronto’s streets this year. Toronto’s leaders have responded to this crisis with pathetic and counterproductive ideas that placate drivers and their precious road spaces.
Is insomnia shortening your life?
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked, “the worst thing in the world is try to sleep and not to.” I’m sure many readers share Fitzgerald’s problem. But suppose this common trouble kills you? That’s when it’s worthwhile to find out more about insomnia, and why some people suffer from TAT (Tired all the Time).
Is it time to stop using the term concussion? Brain injury is more accurate
A recent report shows that NFL concussion rates rose dramatically last year. The rate went up 16% reflecting more player who are self-reporting brain injury. The concussion problem is one of the largest issues being faced by the NFL as a whole and it has continued to be a problem ever since the league, confronted by overwhelming evidence, finally capitulated and admitted the link between repeated concussion and CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy).