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Ontario car-insurance prices will drop starting next year, Finance Minister Charles Sousa promised Tuesday, really, he means it this time.
The plan includes set-piece treatment plans for common injuries that should reduce fights over what insurance companies pay out, independent medical assessments to replace duelling doctors’ opinions, and making it harder for injured people’s lawyers to pocket big contingency fees after securing settlements.
In 2013, Premier Kathleen Wynne promised to cut auto insurance rates for Ontario’s 9.7 million drivers by an average of 15 per cent annually by August, 2015. Upon failing to achieve that promise — the government today claims rates are 6.6 per cent lower compared to 2013 — Wynne shrugged off her original commitment as a “stretch goal.” In other words, a commitment she knew would be hard to keep when she made it.
http://www.lfpress.com/2017/12
Well, here we go again; the provincial government says it’s going to clean up Ontario’s broken auto insurance system.
We pay among the highest auto insurance rates in Canada and for those sky-high rates, we get the worst service.
https://globalnews.ca/news/389
On December 5, 2017, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa along with Attorney General Yasir Naqvi announced another set of major reforms to car insurance in Ontario. This set of reforms has a grandiose name, much like all of the other reforms which have been introduced in the 14+ years of Wynne rule in Ontario.
In an action for negligence, a plaintiff may make a claim for mental injury resulting from the defendant’s conduct. For years, the common law has struggled with the question of whether the plaintiff needs to tender expert evidence to prove that she has suffered a recognized mental illness. A 2017 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Saadati v. Moorehead, 2017 SCC 28, puts this question to rest and reflects an important evolution regarding the legal treatment and understanding of mental injury.
A woman’s success in proving her entitlement to accident benefits following a coffee spill brings good and bad news for plaintiffs, Windsor personal injury lawyer Gino Paciocco tells AdvocateDaily.c
In a recent Court of Appeal decision, the unanimous three-judge panel upheld a motion judge’s ruling that the woman was involved in an “accident” as defined by the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) when the hot drink she ordered at a drive-through spilled all over her lower body, causing serious burns.
VANCOUVER — A new study says Canadians are waiting longer than ever for specialist treatment, but one health research organization says most patients are receiving key procedures within acceptable time frames.
The Fraser Institute released its annual report Thursday on queues for specialist visits and diagnostic and surgical procedures. It is based on surveys of about 2,400 physicians from 12 specialties including orthopedic surgery and radiation oncology.
https://www.bramptonguardian.c
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have found a two-way link between traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intestinal changes. These interactions may contribute to increased infections in these patients, and may also worsen chronic brain damage.
https://eurekalert.org/pub_rel
The Globe and Mail has written another article about abusive practices in insurer’s examinations. The article has the headline, “Insurance assessment firms altered, ghostwrote accident victim reports“. A couple of the problems the article covers, are assessors taking comments out of context, and picking and choosing what to put in a report. In quoting one injured person, the article states, “He said he felt Dr. Graham was ‘trying to give the insurance company a case… ignoring some things and putting attention to other things, and just taking stuff out of context. His findings were biased. There was no other way you could look at that.’”
Ontario’s new system of independent medical exam centres for auto accident benefits claims, announced Tuesday, will need to be different from the designated assessment centres (DACs) that were abolished in 2006, a former DAC committee chair told Canadian UnderwriterWednesday.