Each year, more than 21,000 people are supported through the Guelph Food Bank hamper and excess food programs. Thirty-six per cent of the food bank’s clients are children.
http://www.guelphmercury.com/opinion-story/5245897-food-bank-offers-respite-training-assistance/
Over the years I have been involved in a few insurer studies regarding the cost of mistakes. The most obvious, to an underwriter, is the cost of re-issuing policy documents processed in error. No one publishes these statistics (too embarrassing), but I am sure that almost every insurance company, at one time or other, has done similar studies and or tracks these mistakes as a KPI.
http://www.insblogs.com/legal/reducing-error-ratios-underwriting-compliance-cost-reduction/3323
Discussions follow a Star probe that showed the Law Society of Upper Canada is often slow to report alleged fraud by lawyers to police.
GM and OnStar will be partnering with an insurer allowing new car owners to opt into a service that will track driving habits during a 90 day span.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/insurer-to-partner-with-onstar-186875.aspx
Staged accidents, torched cars, fake witnesses, double identities — they’re the stuff of great spy stories, but also examples of the fraud that has dogged the Insurance Corporation of B.C. and potentially cost its customers hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Reasons for judgement were released earlier this week demonstrating liability after a motorist intimidated a cyclist who subsequently crashed.
http://www.ilstv.com/road-rage-intimidation-incident-leads-liability-subsequent-crash/
QUESTION: My doctor’s office recently posted a sign that says patients will be charged $60 if they miss an appointment or fail to give a 24-hour cancellation notice. The sign, which is taped to the receptionist’s glass booth, also says the fee for a missed annual physical exam is $120.
TORONTO — As Ontario reviews its policies on sexual abuse by doctors, the case of Eleazar Noriega shows how drastically wrong such cases can go, and the lasting effects they have on victims.
When insurers sneeze, insurance defence firms are likely to catch a cold. There are only a handful of other practice areas that are as sensitive to the ebbs and flows of an industry controlled by a small number of corporations. And while recent developments in the insurance world might appear to be trivial from the outside, they’re having an outsized effect on the law firms that inhabit that domain. http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/5411/Success-at-all-levels-Part-1.html
2014 was a good year for the insurance industry in Canada and the United States. However, 2015 will face different challenges.
http://www.insblogs.com/legislation-regulation/insurance-industry-2015/4009