The decision is one of the most striking in a string of cases where adjudicators questioned the objectivity of health professionals testifying about accident victims
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3 Major Causes of Car Accidents & How To Prevent Them
“Distracted and inattentive driving causes more road deaths than drinking and driving and speed combined, according to the Ontario Provincial Police.” And that article was from 2012! Things haven’t improved since then.
http://derekwilsonlaw.ca/3- major-causes-of-car-accidents- how-to-prevent-them/
What your video surveillance can’t prove
An adjudicator with Ontario’s licence appeal tribunal placed little weight on eight days’ worth of an insurer’s video surveillance because the demands of the job a claimant had abandoned due to injury were not the same as the demands of the job where the surveillance took place.
https://www. canadianunderwriter.ca/ insurance/video-surveillance- cant-prove-1004125471/
Income security reform
In 2016, Ontario asked three working groups to examine the income security system and make recommendations on how to improve it.
Read the groups’ report and recommendations for improving income security for people receiving support through programs like Ontario Works and ODSP .
Fair Insurance Act
The Ontario Liberal government, just prior to an election, claims it has again decided to address high automobile insurance premiums (but ignores the negative affect of these changes on victims of car accidents).
In the 2017 Ontario Ministry of Finance Report “Fair Benefits Fairly Delivered: A Review of the Auto Insurance System of Ontario” the average yearly rates for car insurance by province
Simple standard-form contingency fee agreements good for accident victims
Accident victims would be best served by a simple standard-form contingency fee agreement mandated by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC), Barrie personal injury lawyer Steve Rastin tells Law Times.
Ontario Court of Appeal Decision Affirms Corroboration is not Causation
In Montepeque v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 2017 ONCA 959, the Ontario Court of Appeal confirmed that a finding of involvement of an unidentified motor vehicle is not incompatible with a finding that there was no negligence by that unidentified motor vehicle.
https://www.lexology.com/ library/detail.aspx?g= c0c95458-b4d5-479f-a75b- 12c93b15c567
Insured provides no medical evidence to establish entitlement to benefits – Applicant v Aviva Insurance, LAT 17-000760
On June 4, 2015, the applicant was injured in a car accident when she was struck from behind by another vehicle. She sustained a number of injuries including WAD2, neck pain, lower back pain, shoulder pain, hip pain and anxiety. The applicant applied to the LAT on February 10, 2017 after Aviva denied claims, and mediation failed.