Ontario’s financial regulator has released an infographic to its website warning about the insurance risks related to ride-sharing programs.
http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/fsco-issues-warning-on-ride-sharing-programs/1003549453/
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Black box insurance users trade privacy for lower rates
Critics say the technology sounds too Big Brother-ish, or that insurance companies may leverage individual data to hike rather than reduce rates. British insurance analysts quoted in a recent London Telegraph article predicted that drivers who won’t voluntarily install a black-box device will run the risk of being declined insurance.
http://www.ilstv.com/black-box-insurance-users-trade-privacy-for-lower-rates/#.VRwzFI5qRqE
Welfare recipients treated like guinea pigs: Goar
If everything had gone according to plan, the Ontario government would be rolling out a new Employment-Related Benefitfor people with disabilities on April 1.
http://www.mississauga.com/opinion-story/5535047-welfare-recipients-treated-like-guinea-pigs-goar/
Funny motor insurance claims ~ Part 1 Enjoy!
“I was driving along the motorway when the police pulled me over onto the hard shoulder. Unfortunately I was in the middle lane and there was another car in the way.” (Thanks M Robson)
http://www.ilstv.com/funny-motor-insurance-claims-part-1-enjoy/#.VRxbY45qRqF
Cleaning up CPSO secrecy
CPSO has often cloaked multiple offenders in secrecy and protected the physician’s interests over that of very vulnerable patients. Some years ago a College investigator recorded that a well-known Insurer Medical Examination (IME) provider said that “in his view, there are three types of patients:
1. Patients with nothing wrong with them who are “pulling the wool over everyone’s eyes”
2. Patients with no problem who think they have a problem. These patients actually believe that there is something wrong with them, even though there is not.
3. Patients with minor problem who have exaggerated this problem into something much bigger than it is.”
Ultimately the physician who had revealed his bias and potential to stand in the way of treatments for Ontario’s MVA victims was only sent for a private and confidential oral caution.
FAIR letter to CPSO regarding Transparency Project Phase 2 Mar 31 2015
Comments to CPSO http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=5062
Canadian drivers should worry about privacy: report
A new generation of automobile features are wirelessly connecting our cars to manufactures, insurance companies and marketers. While these high-tech features are making drivers’ lives easier they are also generating a lot of data about them which has privacy advocates concerned.
Online auto claims settlement: the latest consumer advocacy tool
When motorists become involved in collisions or other automobile incidents, several questions inevitably arise, ranging from inquiring about who is liable, determining whether to contact the police and investigating how a total loss is established.
Why time is important when hurt in a collision
When you have been injured in a motor vehicle crash it is very important to seek the assistance of a lawyer as soon as possible. There are two main reasons for doing so. Firstly and most importantly, there is legislation in Ontario that limits the time in which a person can bring a law suit. For the vast majority of cases, this time frame is two years.
http://oatleyvigmond.com/why-time-is-important-when-hurt-in-a-collision/#.VRreQY5qRqE
Ontario will introduce legislation to tackle privacy violations of health records
The Ontario government will soon table legislation to clamp down on privacy breaches like alleged violation of former mayor Rob Ford (open Rob Ford’s policard)’s medical records, says Health Minister Eric Hoskins.
Anger of doctor’s sex-assault victim shows through at latest hearing: Porter
The first time Sharon Danley told her story to a panel examining sexual assault by Ontario health professionals of their patients, she had just recently filed a complaint about her son’s pediatrician to the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons.