When innocent parties get run over by a car, or hit while they’re riding a bike, they automatically think that some for of insurance company will respond to their claim.
Author Archives: Admin2
Arrested Mississauga psychologist once disciplined by College
Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins has said Ontario’s legislation will not be reviewed despite criticism from lawyers, ethicists and NDP health critic France Gelinas.
http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2014/10/09/arrested_mississauga_psychologist_once_disciplined_by_college.html
PDF]Discipline Hearing Carter and Lo – College of Psychologists …
The Law, Standards, and Ethics in the Practice of Psychology
A Proposal to Add Information to the Public Register: Criminal Code and Health Insurance Act Offences, and Certain Bail Conditions
The College is working together with other health regulators in considering making additional information publicly available about the health-care professionals that we regulate.
Transparency provides members of the public with information that enables them to decide who they wish to see for care. It also allows the College to demonstrate how we protect the public through our processes.
Technology and auto insurance – boom or bust?
Technology is changing the face of insurance – but could the very technology that promises to measure driving habits on a granular level spell the end of auto insurance as we know it?
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/technology-and-auto-insurance–boom-or-bust-182490.aspx
Car Insurers can monitor your actual driving habits
There is a new device called “Ajusto” that can be installed in your car and allows insurers to monitor your driving behaviour, time spent on the road, times of day that you drive etc. This is now actually in existence and being used by Desjardins/The Personal car insurance company.
http://www.personalinjurylawlawyer.ca/car-insurers-can-monitor-actual-driving-habits/
Province’s 23 regulatory colleges scramble to meet transparency deadline
The colleges that regulate health professionals in Ontario are scrambling to meet a Dec. 1 deadline set by Health Minister Eric Hoskins to outline concrete steps they’ll take toward more transparency.
Ontario balks at reviewing act that governs physician’s conduct
The provincial health minister says decades-old legislation that governs Ontario’s medical regulatory body will not be reviewed, despite criticism that the act protects physicians before patients.
Public safety must be top priority
Health Minister Eric Hoskins tells the Star that he is looking for “new tools”to protect patient safety in response to the Star’s excellent exposé of the secrecy in private colonoscopy and pain clinics and the harm done to unsuspecting patients.
Cynicism surrounds Ontario’s auto insurance
Comments on this week’s article ‘Accident victims at risk at clinics’ revealed a deep cynicism, with readers expressing a mix of despair and disgust at what they see as a disregard for those in need.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/cynicism-surrounds-ontarios-auto-insurance-182391.aspx
OPINION: Avoidable infection in private clinics: in search of transparency and effective prevention
Ontario’s decision to move more hospital-based services to the community is a sensible and laudable policy that has to be backed up with appropriate safety and quality regulation, as well as reimbursement practices.