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This time, the WSIB is facing more than a protest or routine complaint. More than 20 doctors have joined the Ontario Network of Injured Workers’ Groups and the Ontario Federation of Labour in demanding that the province’s ombudsman investigate the 4,400-person bureaucracy. They allege the board’s employees “systematically ignore the advice of medical professionals” in their decisions.
http://www.thestar.com/
….sent a wake-up call to all insurance companies about their primary duty of utmost good faith to their insureds when dealing with first party claims.
http://www.lawyersweekly-
The parties in this case were high school sweethearts. Things turned slightly less sweet once the plaintiff moved away for university, but they remained in touch. As teenagers tend to do these days, they communicated via text message and the Internet. The defendant sent the plaintiff explicit photos of himself, and eventually, convinced her to do the same for him, even though they were no longer in a relationship. He provided assurances that nobody else would see the explicit video.
http://www.slaw.ca/2016/01/31/
A lawyer who has raised eyebrows with some choice words directed at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s disciplinary tribunal in the past is now defending against allegations of unprofessional misconduct and abusive behaviour for a series of e-mails exchanged with two other lawyers.
http://www.lawtimesnews.com/
Remember back in 2013 when our minority Liberal government promised us a 15% cut in car insurance rates by August, 2015? Earlier this month, Premier Kathleen Wynne belatedly admitted defeat, claiming this was always a “stretch goal”, whatever that means.
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/01/30/fair-auto-insurance-thats-a-stretch
Citing “systematic disregard” for professional medical assessments of injured workers, advocates have asked Ontario’s government watchdog to launch an investigation into the province’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.
http://www.thestar.com/news/
Read the submission to the Ombudsman: http://ofl.ca/wp-
The average auto insurance premium in Ontario is 7% lower than it was nearly three years ago – when Ontario’s ruling Liberals pledged to cut auto rates by 15% over two years – and an Insurance Bureau of Canada official is expecting more reductions over the next quarter.
Statutory Deductible – The risk analysis associated with the resolution of ongoing motor vehicle tort claims in Ontario has been turned on its head following the surprising December 8th decision by Justice Martin James of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Vickers v. Palacious, 2015 ONSC 7647 (Ont. S.C.).
Until recently, what auto insurers know about drivers has been very crude — a few demographic clues, like age and sex, and the occasional driving misdeed that happened to catch a police officer’s eye.
http://globalnews.ca/news/
Nearly 8,000 Canadians filed a complaint about a physician last year, but on average only about 54 doctors were formally disciplined in each of the past 15 years. Of those complaints, just over half were determined to require no further action.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/