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Social media posts not always part of litigation

Photos and other information on a protected portion of an individual’s Facebook page invoke privacy interests and will not necessarily be produced to the defence in personal injury litigation, an Ontario Superior Court judge ruled last month.

http://www.lawtimesnews.com/author/shannon-kari/social-media-posts-not-always-part-of-litigation-15311/

Lesage: court puts insurance industry ‘on notice’

An Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision ordering an insurance company to pay full indemnity costs of $72,000 sends a strong message to the industry, Toronto litigator Michael Lesage tells AdvocateDaily.com.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/michael-lesage-lesage-court-puts-insurance-industry-on-notice-1.html

Despite unanimous Queen’s Park vote, police are still disclosing unproven allegations against innocent Ontarians

More than two years after passing legislation protecting innocent Ontarians from having unproven allegations, mental health incidents or withdrawn charges show up on their police record checks, the proposed law remains unenforced.

https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/02/20/despite-unanimous-queens-park-vote-police-are-still-disclosing-unproven-allegations-against-innocent-ontarians.html

Plaintiffs must prove chronic pain is serious impairment

Two recent decisions of the Ontario Superior Court in so-called “threshold motions” suggest that it is still a high legal bar to show that chronic pain suffered by plaintiffs after a motor vehicle accident will meet the “serious impairment” standard set out in the provincial Insurance Act.

http://www.lawtimesnews.com/author/shannon-kari/plaintiffs-must-prove-chronic-pain-is-serious-impairment-15314/?utm_term=Plaintiffs%20must%20prove%20chronic%20pain%20is%20serious%20impairment&utm_campaign=CLNewswire_20180220&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_medium=email

How ICBC can cut auto injury claims costs by more than $20 million

British Columbia’s government monopoly auto insurer could save up to $27 million a year on claims costs and reduce the risk of legal disputes by taking on a “larger role” in designing plans to treat auto collision injuries, PriceWaterhouse Coopers said in a recent report.

https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/icbc-can-cut-auto-injury-claims-costs-20-million-1004127568/

Adhesive Capsulitis – Frozen Shoulder

If you were involved in an auto collision one of the injuries you may sustain is called a “Frozen Shoulder,” or adhesive capsulitis. This usually develops because you suffered an injury to the shoulder which required you to immobilize the shoulder while it healed. The immobilization is factor in causing the frozen shoulder.

http://pickinguppieces.net/adhesive-capsulitis-collision/

How big of an issue is auto insurance going to be in the Ontario election?

The Ontario general election is slated to take place in June, and as the Liberal party aims for another majority, its track record over the past term — or more specifically, how closely its promises matched its actions — is under scrutiny.

https://www.lowestrates.ca/news/how-big-issue-auto-insurance-going-be-ontario-election-25023

Your auto insurance will be cheaper if you sign up in this month: LowestRates.ca

Your auto insurance rate is cheaper if you sign up when the weather is warm. That’s the key takeaway from a two-year price analysis by LowestRates.ca.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/your-auto-insurance-will-be-cheaper-if-you-sign-up-in-this-month-lowestrates-ca-1.3801821#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=OfcGDzF

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t and don’t look good

Insurer Desjardins denied the disability claim of Giller Prize-nominated novelist and professor at Université du Québec à Montréal on the basis that he looked well. Desjardins/The Personal and Manulife did the same to me after my head-on collision.

http://deniedbenefitclaims.com/blog.html

‘I felt bullied and harassed’: A Montrealer’s fight to get insurer to recognize his depression

Samuel Archibald says he’s getting his “fighting spirit” back, feeling better than he has in months.

The Montreal novelist and literature professor has been inundated by messages of love, support and gratitude since La Presse published his story last week of being denied disability insurance last fall, even though his doctor had ordered him to take medical leave for a major depression.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/i-felt-bullied-and-harassed-a-montrealer-s-fight-to-get-insurer-to-recognize-his-depression-1.4537017

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/02/19/novelists-battle-over-disability-insurance-claim-sparks-a-reckoning-in-quebec.html