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FAIR – supporting auto accident victims through advocacy and education
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What happens when an injured employee approaches you for advice on how to proceed with benefits? How does the person decide whether to proceed by way of tort claim and accident benefits and/or long term disability and short term disability and/or WSIB? In order to help the injured employee decide, you must understand how the benefits offset and work against, and potentially with, one another, such that the potential benefits of proceeding one way or another can be understood.
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If Wynne follows through on a still confidential discussion paper, obtained by the Toronto Sun, that proposes radical changes in how Ontario residents are treated by their GPs, it won’t be long before patients are assigned to another costly form of bureaucracy called Patient Care Groups (run by more administrators) based on where they live.
http://www.torontosun.com/
We’ve said before that Ontario’s health ministry is the place where competence goes to die.
In recent years we’ve learned that if it wasn’t blowing $1 billion not delivering electronic patient records, it was wasting hundreds of millions of dollars in the Ornge air ambulance scandal.
Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) has taken the lead following decades of demands from within the industry and the public, proposing changes which would make it easier for victims to sue impaired drivers.
http://www.insurancebusiness.
In today’s case (Zhibawi v. Anslow) the Plaintiff was involved in a minor collision caused by the Defendant. The Defendant acknowledged fault but argued the collision was so minor no injury could have been sustained. The Court rejected this argument. The court did, however, have some difficulties with the Plaintiff’s privately retained expert witness noting his opinions “did not comply with the duty” owed to the Court. Mr. Justice Williams did conclude that the Plaintiff suffered ‘mild to moderate’ soft tissue injuries.
“On behalf of IBC and its members, I would like to extend my sincere congratulations to David Marshall,” saidDon Forgeron, President & CEO, IBC. “We look forward to working with him on the challenges facing Ontario’sauto insurance system and how, together, we can provide Ontarians with an affordable and sustainable auto insurance product.”
Having served the last six years as president and CEO of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), Marshall brings to his new post expertise in active claims management practices that can be employed to identify additional opportunities for auto insurance reform.
David Marshall will steer the perpetually challenged Workplace Safety and Insurance Board for another two years.