In the recent case (Bains v. Antle) the Plaintiff was injured in a collision and sued for damages. The Defendant requested the Plaintiff to attend a 2 day Functional Capacity Assessment less than 84 days before trial. The Plaintiff refused and a court application to compel attendance was brought. Master Harper dismissed the application finding the Defendant was too late and waited at their peril.
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Opioids and the Treatment of Chronic Pain: Controversies, Current Status, and Future Directions
The term opioid refers to all compounds that bind to opiate receptors. Conventionally, the term opiate can be used to describe those opioids that are alkaloids, derived from the opium poppy; these include morphine and codeine. Opioids include semi-synthetic opiates, i.e., drugs that are synthesized from naturally occurring opiates (such as heroin from morphine and oxycodone from thebaine), as well as synthetic opioids such as methadone, fentanyl, and propoxyphene. The term narcotic is a legal designation and should not be used in the clinical setting; it refers to opioids and a few other drugs that are grouped with the opioids by law enforcement.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm
Concussion Research Strengthens Case for Youth Sports Safety Legislation
Mild forms of brain injuries are often described as invisible because they do not appear on traditional medical scans. Using advanced MRI techniques, the authors of the Neurotrauma study were able to make the once-invisible – visible. Quite notably, the study found that the brains of athletes who had a history of concussion had visible decreases in brain volume and blood flow as compared to those athletes who had not experienced concussion.
http://otlablog.com/concussion
OBIA’s Provincial Peer Support Program
OBIA’s Provincial Peer Support Program connects persons with lived experience (the Mentor) with an individual who is living with the effects of acquired brain injury who requires the support (the Partner). The program is available to survivors, family members and/or unpaid caregivers.
Do you have enough auto insurance?
If you are at fault in a crash that causes another party to suffer a catastrophic injury, you may face a judgment “well in excess of $2 million,” he says in an interview with Ottawa’s CTV News at Noon host Michael O’Bryne.
http://www.advocatedaily.com/h
Insured cars driven by spouse’s are now uninsured
The decision means you really need to be careful who uses your car. Court records show the case in question was Skunk v Ketash, 2016 ONSC 2019. The court found that uninsured or underinsurance coverage was in the named to a policyholder’s spouse when the vehicles had been used without the owner’s consent.
https://www.shopinsurancecanad
Exploring the pros and cons of personal injury trials
There are pros and cons of taking a personal injury case to trial, and clients need to understand that from the outset, says North Vancouver personal injury and insurance litigator David Robinson.
Denley: It’s about time someone stood up for the health-care system
The main feature of the deal was a 2.5 per cent a year increase in overall physician funding. It’s an amount that might, at best, cover the cost of an expanding population and the increase in the cost of running physicians’ offices. It wasn’t going to put more money in doctors’ pockets, just the opposite. The two fee cuts already imposed by the government would have stayed in place and doctors would have to help find an additional $200-million fee reduction. Doctors would also have been responsible for keeping to the government’s arbitrary budget number and could have faced more fee cuts if too many patients used the system.
Hundreds die from hunger and malnutrition in breadline Britain
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) have released figures that show 391 people died from malnutrition in 2015. There have been 746 hospital admissions for malnutrition in just 12 months.
http://www.welfareweekly.com/h