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Expert Evidence in a Personal Injury Case (Ontario)

Personal Injury, Long Term Disability and Car Accident cases across Ontario are built upon EVIDENCE. Our legal system doesn’t play out in such a way as a Plaintiff makes a claim, yells a lot that they’re entitled to compensation, and then they get what they want. If Courts worked that way, those with the loudest voices would always win. In order for your case to succeed, you need evidence.

http://www.torontoinjurylawyerblog.com/2016/04/expert-evidence-personal-injury-case-ontario.html

Long-term disability benefits decision ‘changes the landscape’

A recent decision against the double recovery of disability benefits from the public purse marks a shift away from a principle that allows exceptions for people with private insurance, says Ottawa personal injury lawyer Najma Rashid.

http://www.advocatedaily.com/Najma-Rashid-long-term-disability-benefits-decision-changes-the-landscape.html

‘Sexual touching’ case highlights a loophole for doctors guilty of abuse

Doctors in Ontario can grope their patients and keep their licences, and the government has no clear timeline to address what has become a growing concern.

The issue, highlighted by a 2013 Star investigation, led Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins to launch a task force in December 2014 to study sexual abuse among health-care professionals.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/04/29/sexual-touching-case-highlights-a-loophole-for-doctors-guilty-of-abuse.html

Ontario should tighten law on doctors and sexual abuse: Editorial

There’s bad news and a bit of good news in the story of Javad Peirovy, the Toronto doctor who sexually abused four female patients yet will keep his licence and will be back at work in six months.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2016/04/28/ontario-should-tighten-law-on-doctors-and-sexual-abuse-editorial.html

Discipline Committee Schedule

http://www.cpso.on.ca/Whatsnew/Discipline-Committee-Schedule

Ontario’s basic income plan poses a threat to existing social programs

“We believe that in order for basic income to be effective, it has to allow people to live with dignity and be at a level where people can make choices and have power and control in their own lives, not at a level that continues to trap people in poverty,” says Jenna van Draanen, secretary on the board of directors for the Basic Income Canada Network.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/ontarios-basic-income-plan-poses-a-threat-to-144120414.html

Khan and State Far, Decision Date: 2016-04-21 Appeal, Preliminary Issue, FSCO 4883

This Commission does not facilitate the garnishment of after-school paper route earnings. This Commission does not facilitate the seizing of piggy banks.

In his February 29, 2016 Expense Decision, Arbitrator Matheson of ADR Chambers (the “Arbitrator”) set out the issue before him as whether “Mr. Khan” was liable to pay the arbitration expenses of the Respondent, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. The only “Mr. Khan” the Arbitrator identified in his decision is Shaazil Khan.

https://www5.fsco.gov.on.ca/AD/4883

PERSONAL INJURY JURY AWARDS

Almost every country in the Western world promotes the concept of equality under the law, where a poor man wearing rags receives the same treatment as a billionaire in an Armani suit. We like to think that our courts operate under the tenet that beneath our physical attributes, the clothes on our backs and the assets in our bank accounts, we are all the same.

Traumatic brain injuries linked with lasting sleep problems

People who suffered a traumatic brain injury may still have sleep problems for up to a year and a half after, new research shows.
What’s more, the study published online in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, found that many people with these brain injuries may be unaware of how much their sleep is disrupted.

Refusal to revoke doctor’s licence leaves CPSO ‘disappointed’ by its own panel

Physician who engaged in sexual touching was merely suspended 6 months, while the province considers expanding mandatory penalties.