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Ontario’s new “Fair Auto Insurance Plan” will leave accident victims without an advocate and at the mercy of insurance companies, say personal injury lawyers.
The government is aiming to deliver lower insurance premiums by allowing insurance companies to “bully” accident victims, says Darcy Merkur, a partner at Thomson Rogers in Toronto.
Ontario’s move to establish a new Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which would help crack down on auto insurance fraud, is widely — if cautiously — praised as a step in the right direction by the province’s property and casualty industry.
It has been just more than a year and a half since responsibility for adjudicating accident benefits disputes was transferred to the Licence Appeal Tribunal, which decides on claims and licensing regulations involving a number of provincial ministries.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/au
Public confidence in the civil justice system is being put at risk by the reaction to a landmark Supreme Court decision on criminal trial delays, says Barrie-area personal injury lawyer Steve Rastin.
Last summer, in R v. Jordan, the nation’s top court set hard deadlines for criminal matters to get to trial without risking dismissal for delay.
This is a reconsideration of a decision made on March 15, 2017. In that decision, I decided five issues in dispute. The wrong legal test was applied in considering one of the issues. I return to that issue in this decision to apply the correct legal test.
Let’s talk about privilege – specifically, about the lack of privilege faced by tens of thousands across the province of Ontario who require affordable access to justice, but who are left alone to navigate the impenetrable maze that has become our present-day court system.
In the December 6, 2017 case (Nagra v. Stapleton) the Plaintiff was involved in a 2014 collision that the Defendant admitted responsibility for. Despite voicing some concerns about the Plaintiff’s credibility the Court accepted his medical evidence that he suffered injuries to his neck and low back as a result of the crash.
http://www.ilstv.com/defense-d