http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/source/regs/english/2013/elaws_src_regs_r13347_e.htm
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Get legally fit in 2014
Review your no fault accident benefit coverage to see if it’s adequate. This coverage was severely reduced in 2010 but some of the pre-2010 benefits can be repurchased at minimal expense.
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/04/get-legally-fit-in-2014
INSURERS GET AN EARLY PRESENT; INJURED VICTIMS GET ANOTHER LUMP OF COAL
Neither OTLA, nor any other legal, medical or victim advocacy organization, was consulted before these changes were made. They are completely unfair, illogical, and counter to the entire purpose of having a no-fault benefits system.
http://otlablog.com/insurers-get-an-early-present-injured-victims-get-another-lump-of-coal/
Adjuster Privilege – What kinds of information and files can be protected in litigation?
An adjuster’s file is ripe with documents that insurance companies who hired the adjuster would not want to end up in the hands of plaintiffs. For example, adjuster’s files will often contain witness statements, reports of various types, legal opinions, and documents setting out the insurer’s position and strategy.
http://www.claimscanada.ca/issues/article.aspx?aid=1002811956
Auditor general credits province with eliminating FSCO mediation backlog
But personal injury lawyers concerned about arbitration delays
Ontario Auto Insurance Three-Year Review – submissions invited
Consumers and stakeholders are invited to provide comments and suggestions on how to ensure a stable, sustainable and competitive auto insurance system, including:
- reducing claim costs
- decreasing regulatory, product and administrative complexity for industry, service providers and consumers
- promoting greater consumer choice and protection
- increasing transparency in communications between insurers, service providers, policyholders and claimants
- improving the availability of auto insurance for individuals and businesses
- basing treatment of motor vehicle accident injuries on scientific and medical evidence, and
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considering approaches used in other jurisdictions
Please provide written comments no later than March 31, 2014, by email to the attention of Jennifer MacMillan, Senior Policy Consultant, Auto Insurance Policy Unit, FSCO at3YearReview@fsco.gov.on.ca.
http://www.fsco.gov.on.ca/en/auto/Pages/ontario-auto-insurance-3-yr-review.aspx
Read about the last 5 year review: http://www.fsco.gov.on.ca/en/auto/5yr-review/Pages/default.aspx
Ontario Government Tightens Up SABS
The Ontario Government filed amendments to the SABS to tighten up a number of provisions to clarify the policy intent.
http://williehandler.blogspot.ca/2013/12/ontario-government-tightens-up-sabs.html
ONTARIO REGULATION 347/13 made under the INSURANCE ACT Made: December 11, 2013 Filed: December 17, 2013 Published on e-Laws: December 17, 2013 http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/source/regs/english/2013/elaws_src_regs_r13347_e.htm
Lawyers Coaching SRLs in “Self-Advocacy”? Why This Paradoxical Proposition Deserves Your Serious Consideration
How SRLs want help
SRLs want help – that is loud and clear. On-line resources get them part of the way – sometimes. But they want face-to-face help too. Almost all of them say that they want lawyers. But they cannot afford to use a lawyer for every step of their case. They want help to be effective self-advocates.
Lawsuits driving up municipal insurance costs
And Ontario’s Negligence Act includes what’s known as ‘joint and several liability.’ Also called the ‘one per cent rule,’ Riley says it means several people can be named in a lawsuit, including municipalities. In cases where other defendants have no money, a city that’s found to be only marginally responsible for an incident can be on the hook for the entire damages award. http://www.northernlife.ca/news/localNews/2013/12/18-municipal-insurance-sudbury.aspx
Disabled in Ontario increasingly forced onto welfare
“More research is needed to understand the causes and consequences of the welfareization of disability,” Stapleton concludes in his report. “In turn, this will enable policy-makers to provide more effective, robust and humane support to Ontarians and Canadians with disabilities.”