The Safety, Licensing Appeals and Standards Tribunal Ontario (SLASTO) has issued an update on the Automobile Accident Benefits Service Project in regards to the transfer of Ontario’s auto insurance dispute resolution system from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario to the Licence Appeal Tribunal of SLASTO.
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Simple blood test can detect evidence of concussions up to a week after injury
“Symptoms of a concussion, or a mild to moderate traumatic brain injury, can be subtle and are often delayed, in many cases by several days,” said Linda Papa, MD, MSC, an emergency medicine physician and NIH funded researcher at Orlando Health and lead author of the study. “This could provide doctors with an important tool for simply and accurately diagnosing those patients, particularly children, and making sure they are treated properly.”
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Why Fibromyalgia Is Neuropathic
The etiology of fibromyalgia is still largely unknown, but it isn’t as controversial as it used to be.
A decade ago, the chronic rheumatic disease was most often attributed to muscle and ligament problems. Some declared it a psychogenic disorder. (Some still do.) More recently, however, studies have linked fibromyalgia with malfunctioning neurotransmitters, neurochemical imbalances and other neuropathic conditions.
Chronic Pain Injury meets Threshold for Non-pecuniary Damages
Under the Ontario Insurance Act s.267.5(5)(b), a person is eligible to receive non-pecuniary general damages from a motor vehicle accident claim only if they meet the required ‘threshold’ in terms of sustaining “a permanent serious impairment of an important physical, mental and psychological function”. The Act also sets out specific requirements for proving ‘serious’ and ‘permanent’ injury, which includes evidence from at least one physician.
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The Ontario Liberals are trading cash for access. How is that even legal?
Should the Ontario Liberal Party be investigated by police for influence-peddling? That will seem like a far-fetched idea to some. After all, as Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne keeps saying, everything her party and her cabinet members do to raise money conforms with the laws of the province.
Poverty and Social Inequality in Canada: The Debate on Basic Income and Guaranteed Annual Income (GAI)
Both the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa and the Wynne Government at Queen’s Park in Toronto have been making noises of late on the subject of Basic Income. The last Ontario Budget, in fact, declared an intention to carry out a pilot project in a community still to be announced. While no clear details are yet available, it is very likely that we will soon be dealing with a practical initiative that we will have to respond to. We will have to consider how we view the possibility of the Liberals moving in the direction of a Basic Income system.
‘Poverty can be solved,’ says Chris Mackie, adding the community must ‘pick up the baton’
The mayor’s advisory panel on poverty has called on the city, provincial and federal governments, as well as anti-poverty agencies, to make changes in transit, housing, mental health and addiction, employment, child care, and education, sources say.
Hordo v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 2016 ONCA 238 (CanLII)
[1] The appellant appeals, on numerous grounds, from the motion judge’s decision striking her application for declaratory relief against the respondents as an abuse of process. At heart, the appellant claims that confidential and private health-related information provided by her to the respondent State Farm in support of her claim for statutory accident benefits was wrongly transmitted to persons outside Ontario without her prior knowledge or consent.
[2] The motion judge accepted State Farm’s position that the appellant’s complaints against State Farm have also been asserted in her pending action against it for accident benefits. In addition, the appellant has lodged similar complaints on essentially the same basis under the Insurance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. I.8 and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, S.C. 2000, c. 5 (“PIPEDA”), both of which provide comprehensive dispute resolution schemes. In these circumstances, the motion judge accepted State Farm’s submission that declaratory relief should not be granted where it will not resolve the disputes between the parties and there are other reasonably effective procedures available for dealing with those disputes.
What every injured accident victim should take from the Ghomeshi Trial (Ontario)
99% of personal injury cases in Ontario settle without ever going to trial; or without ever seeing the inside of a Courtroom for that matter.
The same cannot be said for criminal cases in Ontario. The government keeps stats on the percentage of criminal cases which go to trial. These stats are displayed on the Ontario Court of Justice website, and vary from month to month, depending on the offense.
Advanced Payments: When and Why?
With the pending changes to the SABS, tort adjusters will undoubtedly be called upon by Plaintiff counsel to make advance payments to cover such things as medical expenses, lost wages and attendant care. Seriously injured Plaintiff’s facing a combined $65,000 limit for medical, rehabilitation and attendant care benefits will start looking for funds from the tort defendant in advance of a settlement or trial. With a five year limit set to be imposed on non-catastrophic Plaintiffs to access these benefits, it is conceivable that many Plaintiffs will have either used up, or no longer be entitled to receive such funds, before their cases get to trial.