Without any injection of public funding or significant changes to the Rules of Civil Procedure, The Advocates’ Society is hoping to reshape the civil trial system with its new best practices for civil trials.
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Hamilton cop: ‘I was not myself,’ blamed daughter for false claims
A sloppy bookkeeping system and a feverish, cloudy head following a hospitalization contributed to the situation Sgt. Jason Howard found himself in in late 2013, he told a Police Services Act hearing officer on Monday morning.
Snowclearing company fined $900,000 by Ontario for QEW failings
The company contracted to clear highways in many parts of Ontario has been fined $900,000 for not properly sanding and plowing the Queen Elizabeth Way during two storms last winter.
College of physicians and surgeons shares information with police about MDs’ alleged criminal acts
For the first time, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has started forwarding decisions of its disciplinary committee to police when potential criminal acts by doctors — including sexual abuse — are involved.
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Claims and Coverage: Lawyers key in fight against motor vehicle insurance fraud
In a shocking criminal trial earlier this year, the Ontario Superior Court found a Peel police officer guilty of creating nine false motor vehicle accident reports for a fee (see R. v. Watson).
These accidents never happened. A tow-truck driver, who was a childhood friend of the officer, hired people to claim themselves as vehicle occupants who then put forward fraudulent insurance claims with cars brought to a secluded yard at night and crashed together to create damage. All told, insurers paid out almost $916,000 to the fraudsters and $272,000 in medical and legal expenses.
Auto insurance leaders outline hopes for industry reform
After describing Canada’s auto insurance market as a “rollercoaster,” insurance leaders at the National Insurance Conference of Canada outlined their hopes for industry reform, and the way brokers play a role in it.
$131,250 Non Pecuniary Assessment for Chronic TMJ Injury
In today’s case (Williams v. Gallagher) the Plaintiff, who was 20 at the time, was involved in a 2010 vehicle collision caused by the Defendant. The Plaintiff suffered a variety of injuries the most serious of which was an injury to the temporomandibular (TM) joints in his jaw. This required surgical intervention which did not cure his pain and the Plaintiff was expected to have chronic lingering problems.
Accident Victim or MVA Professional? Help us Rate Auto Insurance Companies
Since auto insurance is mandatory in Ontario, information on how these companies rank should be made available. We have created two surveys to collect this information:
Letter: More on the history of contingency fees
It is the case that contingency fees, whereby a lawyer or firm can contract for a retainer that will pay it a percentage of a recovery, were only recently permitted by legislation in Ontario, the last province to do so. But contingency fees in personal injury cases in Ontario go back many decades, likely coincident with the coming of the motor car to Ontario roads, and perhaps even earlier. The contingency involved was that if there was no recovery of damages, the lawyer did not get paid and was out of pocket for the disbursements necessary to take the case to trial.