Healthcare providers (HCPs) are influential in the injured workers’ recovery process and fulfil many roles in the delivery of health services. Interactions between HCPs and insurers can also affect injured workers’ engagement in rehabilitation and subsequently their recovery and return to work. Consideration of the injured workers’ perceptions and experiences as consumers of medical and compensation services can provide vital information about the quality, efficacy and impact of such systems.
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Reducing Taxpayers’ Dollars means the CMPA taking a Different Litigation Approach
Unlike private insurers who make measured business decisions to bring cases to conclusion, the CMPA has been known to spend more money litigating a matter than the case is worth in order to protect the reputation and integrity of the defendant doctor.
http://otlablog.com/
Orillia woman involved in serious collision slams province’s planned changes to insurance industry
An Orillia woman who was in a car crash seven years ago that left her in a coma worries changes to the auto-insurance industry will have devastating effects.
Tammy Kirkwood said the province’s plan to reduce auto-insurance benefits that was passed as part of the budget earlier this year will severely hurt crash victims requiring extensive care.
“These benefits should not be called benefits; they are resources and necessary to regain your whole person and get on track,” she said.
“We are mandated to purchase auto insurance to drive a car, yet there is nothing in place to mandate the insurers to uphold the policy we have to purchase.”
United Way event targets poverty in Simcoe County
Forrest Willett knows poverty and despair.
He also knows people can rise above them.
The former Simcoe County resident grew up poor, with five siblings and a single parent trying to make ends meet and keep food on the table.
A 2002 car crash left him with a potentially debilitating brain injury that could have altered his life — for the worse — forever.
Instead, he persevered and is now a bestselling author and motivational speaker travelling the world.
http://www.orilliapacket.com/2015/10/01/united-way-event-targets-poverty-in-simcoe-county
Baseballs Don’t Bounce Random Thoughts From an Injured Brain Paperback by Forrest Willett http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0988081016/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
Starting off the License Appeal Tribunal for MVA victims – already slanted to favor auto insurers?
The LAT update says “The Advisory Committee members represent groups that have an interest in the areas of law, business, government, consumer groups and the insurance industry” but the reality is that the Committee is composed of insurer defence lawyers and legal experts and consultants without any presence of consumers or MVA victims or those who represent them. This is unacceptable when such uneven and unfair weighting of the Committee appears to favour Ontario’s insurance industry while totally ignoring Ontario’s consumers and MVA victims. http://www.slasto.gov.on.ca/en/Documents/What%20New-EN/AIDRS%20Project%20Update%20-%20FSCO%20Forums%20-%20EN.pdf
FAIR letter to the Attorney General re LAT advisory panel Sept 30 2015
Auto insurance fraud: A potentially dangerous and expensive problem
Recently, Ontarians learned that a 23-year veteran of Peel Regional Police was sentenced to five years in jail for defrauding insurance companies of almost $1 million. Constable Carlton Watson was found guilty of accepting a fee to create several motor vehicle accident reports for collisions that never happened that resulted in fraudulent physical damage and injury claims being paid out by insurers.
Appeal Judge Rips Trial Judge’s Conduct Towards Self-Represented Defendant
A Superior Court Judge has tossed out a Small Claims Court judgment for a long list of reasons which primarily involve the inappropriate manner in which the trial judge dealt with the self-represented defendant throughout the course of the trial.
From one of our members:
Someone called. We could not make it out. Someone called again, it was the Social Security Tribunal of Canada, her message said “if your matter has already been completed then you can disregard this call” “otherwise you can call us” and left an OUT OF SERVICE NUMBER 1-877-277-8577.
I emailed the Social Security Tribunal and was informed that I had been given the wrong number by them and it should have been 1-877-227-8577.
To make matters worse the email he replied back to me with quoted someone else s case number! Not mine!
Am I in the twilight zone?
$70,000 Non-Pecuniary Assessement For Largely Recovered but “Vulnerable” Soft Tissue Injuries
In today’s case (Boysen-Barstow v. ICBC) the Plaintiff was injured in a 2011 collision caused by an unidentified motorist. ICBC accepted statutory fault for the collision. The Plaintiff sustained various soft tissue injuries which enjoyed significant recovery but remained susceptible to aggravation.
COST OF JUSTICE PROJECT : ATTRITION STUDY
The Final Report of the CFCJ’s Cost of Civil Justice Attrition in BC’s Courts has been published!
The goal of the Attrition Study, as explained in a previous CFCJ Slaw post and on the CFCJ website, was to examine the outcome of unresolved, civil, non-family cases in the BC Supreme Court and assess the level of satisfaction among claimants. Data for the Study was collected by reviewing cases, analyzing court records and carrying out telephone surveys with claimants and their counsel.
http://www.cfcj-fcjc.org/