2020 Budget consultations
Over the years a budget has become a vehicle for introducing all kinds of good and bad ideas when it comes to auto insurance (and other issues)
So a budget consultation is an opportunity to use your voice.
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Ontario’s FSRA to establish a consumer advisory panel
A release explained that the panel will provide perspectives from consumers – including pension beneficiaries, credit union members and the general public – on planned FSRA policy changes. The panel will also assist the regulator’s consumer office in serving as the voice of the consumer within FSRA.
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The Connection Between Statutory Accident Benefits and Tort
Ontario motor vehicle accident legislation is a confusing area of personal injury law for many victims of a car accident. It is important for people to understand their available options for compensation through accident benefits and tort, and how these particular options interplay with each other. Failure to appreciate this balance (or failure to seek legal representation) can adversely affect the final amount of compensation, or at worst, eliminate entitlement to compensation completely.
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Tomec v. Economical: Ruling on Limitation Periods Protects Injured Plaintiffs
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in a decision released Nov. 8, 2019, that limitation periods under the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) are subject to discoverability and are not to be considered “hard limitation periods.”
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Class action lawsuit raises questions for Ford, insurance regulator
Eleven auto insurance companies that have allegedly withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in HST payments from Ontario car accident victims since 2010 have been named in 11 class action lawsuits that now total $1.1 billion in damages. None of the 11 class actions has been certified or tested in court.
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Reporting on SRLs and their Experiences: NSRLP’s Intake Report 2018-2019
After the publication of Dr. Macfarlane’s research report in 2013, SRLs have continued to contact the National Self-Represented Litigants Project. The NSRLP team decided to develop an “Intake Form” in SurveyMonkey, in order to continue to collect information from SRLs across Canada; we have since put out semi-regular reports on the new data from SRLs coming in every week. Our latest Intake Report, out today, presents data from 173 respondents, from surveys submitted between January 1st, 2018 and June 30th, 2019.
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An Open Letter to the Canadian Pain Task Force, the Minister of Health and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
After our last teleconference, we sent Andrea Currie, Canadian Pain Task Force Secretariat, an update on the status of two patients in Ontario that were mentioned in that call. One was the young lady who was the subject of a Chatelaine article and the other was Mr. Dan Wallace, the retired police detective and former member of the Canadian Military.
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Surprising physical symptoms of my brain injury
The initial bleed at the base of my brain, the hospital had seen but down played it. The blood pushed against and irritated my brain stem and spinal cord. These control the flow of messages between the brain and the rest of the body. This added to my physical symptoms.