Liberals must choose between Ontario drivers and auto insurance industry – Today in the legislature, Bramalea-Gore-Malton MPP Jagmeet Singh asked Finance Minister Charles Sousa when Ontario drivers can expect to see some relief with…
http://insurernews.com/liberals-must-choose-between-ontario-drivers-and-auto-insurance-industry/
Hopes the province would act quickly to help cities stem soaring insurance costs were dashed at this week’s meeting of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.
http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2014/08/20-insurance-sudbury.aspx
PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP is advising insurance companies to integrate advanced telephony systems with their claims systems, to “share talent” with large groups of claims adjusters and to use analytics to understand their customers’ patterns of behaviour.
There isn’t one silver bullet needed to cure Ontario’s ailing auto insurance system, but several; and right now the chambers are empty, says the president of one of the province’s largest auto insurers.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/the-silver-bullet-for-ontario-auto-insurance-181459.aspx
Cars changed the world and our cities in the 20th Century by freeing people of the limitations of their geography. People now have the freedom to live, work, shop and travel almost anywhere they want. The car industry has caused suburbs to grow, and made the development of road and highway systems necessary.
Ontario Health Claims Database HCDB Standard Report August 2014 with data on claims costs
The Supreme Court of Canada recently dismissed an application, from Lombard General Insurance Company of Canada, for leave to appeal a court ruling against Lombard over the limitation period on claims under the Ontario auto family protection…
Isn’t it odd that when we read or talk about auto insurance, we focus on premiums or fraud?
We rarely read or talk about the interests of accident victims.
Maybe that’s because it would be politically embarrassing to discuss their interests.
Ailing, disabled and unemployed Canadians seeking benefits have been facing increasingly long waits to have their appeals heard, even as full-time positions on the government’s woefully backlogged Social Security Tribunal have remain unfilled.