Joseph Campisi, a Toronto area personal injury has launched a constitutional challenge to Bill 15, Fighting Fraud and Reducing Auto Insurance Rates Act, 2014. The bill received Royal Assent in November 2014 and introduces a number of changes to the auto insurance system including:
This past holiday season, food banks all across Ontario benefited from the generosity of their communities. Ontarians came together to donate food and financial support, both of which will make an enormous difference in the lives of people who struggle to make ends meet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/ontario-association-of-food-banks/food-banks_b_6557678.html
In a rare move, the province’s regulatory board has dismissed allegations of professional misconduct against a Hamilton psychiatrist who allegedly sexually abused a female patient.
The classic Mad Magazine comic strip Spy Vs. Spy featured nearly identical spies – one dressed in black, one in white – constantly scheming to harm each other, usually with some incendiary device. The two alternated between victory and defeat in a clever visual representation of the Cold War.
Ontario’s Doctors were extremely disappointed to read your incorrect comment as reported in the Sudbury Star over the weekend regarding our recent negotiations with your government. And we felt, to be fair to patients, we needed to reach out to correct the record.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1478533/an-open-letter-to-premier-wynne-from-ontario-s-doctors
Lawyer and advocate Joseph Campisi is launching a constitutional challenge in the Ontario Superior Courts, seeking a declaration that parts of the legislation that were recently passed by the Liberal Government are discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be inoperative.
Improving transparency around medical error is a potential “magic bullet” that could finally start to make health care less hazardous after years of lacklustre efforts, concludes a new report from a major American patient-safety organization.
TORONTO – Ontario’s New Democrats plan to introduce legislation next month to force the government to disclose the names of physicians who bill the province’s health insurance system and the amounts they charge each year.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1787657/ndp-wants-secret-info-on-ontarios-top-billing-doctors-made-public/
While calling out the legal and health care community for rising insurance costs, the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s Barb Taylor opened fire on the Ontario government’s premium target for auto insurers.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/15-per-cent-target-for-ontario-auto-does-not-compute-187452.aspx
“It’s an improvement on a situation that became unworkable not only for lawyers facing dismissals but also for the courts, for master courts that have had to deal with the ramifications of those automatic dismissals,” says Andrew Murray, a partner at Lerners LLP.