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Personal Support Worker During Recovery

While you are recovering from your collision, the need for outside support may become necessary. Fortunately, a personal support worker (PSW) can alleviate much of the workload placed on a family while providing healthcare services and peace of mind to loved ones.

http://pickinguppieces.net/personal-support-worker-recovery/

Benefits of medical marijuana overstated: guideline

EDMONTON — A new medical guideline suggests family doctors should think twice before prescribing medical marijuana to their patients.

The Simplified Guideline for Prescribing Medical Cannabinoids in Primary Care, published Thursday in the medical journal Canadian Family Physician, says there is limited evidence to support the reported benefits of medical marijuana for many conditions.

https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8137623-benefits-of-medical-marijuana-overstated-guideline/#.WoX_MUgRMok.twitter

Insurers’ “Hardball” Tactics Mean Good Legal Representation is Essential

The Toronto Sun newspaper recently reported on a case in which an auto insurer had used particularly aggressive tactics to defend a claim brought by a young woman who had endured catastrophic injuries during a rear-end vehicle collision when she was only 17 years old.

http://www.vandykelaw.ca/2018/02/insurers-hardball-tactics-mean-good-legal-representation-essential/

 

Change course on coverage? Be clear that’s it’s not a settlement.

If an insurer changes course midway through a claim — offering coverage, for example, when that coverage was previously denied — it will need to clarify that its change of position does not constitute an offer to settle before taking further steps to resolve the claim.

https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/insurance/reverse-course-coverage-make-sure-not-settlement-1004126259/

 

Eggplants, peaches and champagne: gleaning evidence from social media

It’s the Wild West as social media and digital technology intersect with the practice of law, and lawyers debated the impact of it all this week at the Ontario Bar Association’s annual Institute in Toronto.

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/author/elizabeth-raymer/eggplants-peaches-and-champagne-gleaning-evidence-from-social-media-15306/

 

Applicant Commences Action After Two-Year Limitation Period – ST v Economical LAT 16-003034

ST was injured in a car accident on September 12, 2008. She was hit while walking across an intersection. She was hospitalized and required surgery for her orthopaedic injuries. She sought benefits pursuant to the SABs from Economical.

https://www.deutschmannlaw.com/blog/post/applicant-commences-action-after-two-year-limitation-period-st-v-economical-lat-16-003034

 

How British Columbia will handle auto accident benefit disputes

A new dispute resolution system for auto insurance in British Columbia will probably focus both on first-party accident benefit disputes and resolving claims from minor injuries, but the details have yet to be worked out, a spokesperson for the province’s Ministry of the Attorney General said.

https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/claims/british-columbia-will-handle-auto-accident-benefit-disputes-1004127383/

 

First blood test to help diagnose brain injuries gets U.S. approval

CHICAGO — The first blood test to help doctors diagnose traumatic brain injuries has won U.S. government approval.

The move means Banyan Biomarkers can commercialize its test, giving the company an early lead in the biotech industry’s race to find a way to diagnose concussions.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/first-blood-test-to-help-diagnose-brain-injuries-gets-u-s-approval-1.3803719

 

Changes to WSIB pre-existing conditions policy a cautious step forward

Last but not least, the Toronto Star exposed the link between this illegal policy and a discredited American doctor linked to the insurance industry.
From our Twitter
Dr. Brigham connection + undermining coverage Link to auto insurer’s medical expert re attempts to erode coverage for seriously injured car accident victims http://www.fairassociation.ca/ wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ Ameis-Arthur-Physical- Medicine-and-Rehabilitation. pdf  problem is there’s no one fighting to fix harm to #Ont MVA victims, no class action, just more cuts

 

The High Stakes Cost of Litigation

$30,000 in damages and $151,045 in costs. $20,414.813 in damages and $237,017.50 in costs.
Litigation is expensive. We all know this to be a fact, but a couple of recent Ontario Superior Court decisions drive home the point. While at first blush one might think that awarding costs worth five and ten times the damages is outrageous, in both cases, the costs awards were fair and reasonable in the circumstances of each case. Had the trial judge awarded anything less, injustice would surely be the result.