The road to recovery can be a long one following a serious accident. You’ll need all the help you can get; and sometimes the help provided through the publicly funded OHIP system just isn’t enough.
Treatment like physiotherapy, occupational therapy, massage, psychological counselling, speech language pathology and chiropractic treatment in the majority of cases aren’t covered by the OHIP system.
The government is investing in physiotherapy, giving 90,000 more seniors and eligible patients access to publicly funded clinic-based services in more communities across the province.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en /public/programs/physio/pub_cl inics.aspx
Medical researchers in London, Ont. say they’ve discovered a new blood test that has a 90 per cent accuracy rate to correctly identify whether someone has had a concussion.
In Ontario, when the injured victim of a car accident sues the at-fault driver, the damages awarded are reduced by the no-fault accident benefits paid or available to the injured plaintiff from his or her own insurance company.
In a case arising from an injury on an all-terrain vehicle, an Ontario court recently ruled on the interrelationship between the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) and the system of determining priority disputes, between auto insurers, under the province’s Insurance Act.
Facebook has blocked Admiral from scouring social media profiles to set car insurance prices, forcing the company into a hasty climbdown.
If juries have become cynical it is because the insurance industry spends inordinate amounts of money, and uses Trump tactics, to launch ad campaigns to tell the public about so-called rampant insurance fraud. The public has come to believe that nearly everyone is fraudulent without hearing the perspective of accident victims. Most injured parties have to take on their insurer via a legal battle to receive the income replacement and rehab benefits they require and are obliged to sign “privacy” or confidentiality agreements so they can’t divulge the settlement or how they were treated at mediation or in an examination for discovery.
To understand the meaning of words in a statute, Courts have to understand the statute’s intent. The purpose of an Act, i.e. why it was enacted and how it came to be, is not just a relevant factor in deciding how to give effect to a statute’s words, but is essential to determining its meaning.
http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x /542040/trials+appeals+compens ation/The+Purposive+Approach+ to
The way we deal with adults living in poverty is a mess. Whether you believe in a handout or a hand-up approach, what those in need tend to get these days is the back of the hand. The social-welfare system is parsimonious, judgmental, demeaning, complex and bureaucratic. Worst of all, it tends to perpetuate, rather than alleviate, poverty.