Ontario’s car insurance system needs further reforms. Young males under the age of 25 should have the same premiums for any car. Income replacement should go with the driver, not with the car.
http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/4048492-income-replacement-should-go-with-driver/
Ontario’s insurance coverage has been slashed in the name of savings, not for consumers but for insurers. Coverage for most injuries has been reduced from $100,000 to $3,500 in order to make more profits for insurers who are already turning down half of all claims and clogging up our courts.
http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/08/23/mixed-reviews-for-plan-to-reduce-auto-insurance-premiums/
The government ought to be looking at the insurance industry practices of deflating claims and wrongful denial of claims for rehabilitation with the use of bogus medical reports for what it is – defrauding consumers out of the coverage they paid for.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/08/20130824-071306.html
The insurance industry representing more than 100 companies quickly responded that it can’t be done in two years without further cuts to benefits, including payouts for catastrophic injuries.
What part of the costs of those who are catastrophically injured is unnecessary? Who is it that Mr. Palumbo feels needs it more – those less injured? Or is it just better to give our money to insurers and expect no coverage at all? That’s already happening to half of Ontario’s accident victims
The Hon. J. Douglas Cunningham has been appointed to lead a review of Ontario’s auto insurance dispute resolution system and make recommendations on transforming the current system.
Another demonstration of the overuse of Ontario’s court system?
” We want to know if Ontario’s insurers are simply taking advantage of Canada’s poor access to justice record and deliberately clogging up our court systems in order to make higher profits…”
http://www.lucknowsentinel.com/2013/08/20/town-hall-discussion-about-auto-insurance-in-goderich
But doesn’t anonymizing the names of the censured health professionals undermine the objective of the Ontario health regulatory system – protecting the public?
Make no mistake, ads for legal firms are not intended as public service announcements
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/08/16/how-not-to-find-a-lawyer
“We need to make visible the pain caused by inadequate access and the huge discrepancies between the promise of justice and the lived reality of barriers and impediments,” says Melina Buckley
http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/legalfeeds/1630/a2j-requires-dramatic-changes-cba-report.html