In a frank open letter directed at the judiciary, self-represented litigants say they’re sick of being treated as “annoying obstacles unworthy of compassion and understanding” when they stand before the courts.
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Going it alone
There is growing concern about the increasing numbers of family law litigants without representation, regarding the negative effects for these vulnerable individuals and their children, and about the costs for the justice system
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&volume=34&number=19&article=3
Public not told of infection outbreak at private Toronto pain clinic
Two weeks after Anne Levac went to a Toronto pain clinic for an injection of steroids for chronic back pain, the 68-year-old Fenelon Falls woman fell seriously ill. She was rushed to hospital by ambulance, she says, while falling in and out of consciousness and suffering excruciating pain.
Chronic Pain Cases: Why it’s important to have a family doctor
If you keep up with the news, you will know there’s a shortage of family doctors. This shortage is more pronounced in rural or remote communities. Perhaps the notion of a shortage of family doctors isn’t accurate, but I’ll let the people at the Ministry of Health and the OMA debate that.
Auto Accident Benefits Changes Coming Again
Since 1990 auto insurance personal injury claims have been governed in Ontario by a no-fault system. By that it is meant that most compensation for injury in accidents comes from benefits paid under a government regulated standard Ontario auto policy. Before then, there were limited benefits available for medical expenses and loss of income from a person’s own insurer, but most compensation came from liability claims where a lawsuit was brought against the at-fault driver and vehicle owner where liability insurance covered drivers for such claims and paid out any victim who made a claim who was not the at-fault driver. http://www.
N.S. government takes parents to court over daughter’s insurance settlement
The parents of a teen who suffered severe brain damage in a car crash 18 years ago are trying to stop the Nova Scotia government from taking what’s left of her million-dollar insurance settlement.
http://www.ilstv.com/n-s-
Independence and Self-Regulation: I’m OK but I’m Not So Sure About You!
Professor Ariely says that “While we may realize that such conflicts exist and that they influence others, we fail dramatically in perceiving both the extent of their effects and our own susceptibility to them”[iii]. He describes a lecture that he gave to about two thousand members of the American Medical Association during which he asked the physicians whether they felt that their medical judgments were affected by conflicts of interests with their hospital, drug manufacturers, insurance companies, medical device manufacturers or pharmaceutical sales representatives. Not a single physician raised their hand. But nearly ever hand was raised when he asked whether the audience believed that the majority of other physicians in the room were influenced!
Ottawa’s unjust approach to disability insurance
Imagine you have a car accident. You file a claim with your insurance company for the damage to your car. Three months later your claim is denied with little explanation. You appeal the decision, but the bureaucratic process takes years because the insurance company does not hire enough adjusters to handle claims. After raiding your savings to cover the repairs and going through three different levels of appeal, your claim is finally granted — but they only give you a fraction of the actual cost of the damage.
Clients feel scammed as alleged lawyer misconduct kept quiet
Clients of two lawyers accused of serious misconduct are outraged over being kept in the dark about their lawyers’ records, which they said derailed their cases and cost them thousands.
Driverless cars are possible, but not desirable
I am standing on the edge of Piazza Venezia – Venice Square – smack in the heart of old Rome, and am trying to imagine this seething ocean of cars, trucks, scooters, buses, bicycles, pedestrians and terrified tourists on Segways stuffed instead with diverless vehicles, and I can’t.