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For car owners in Nova Scotia, August 1, 2015, was an important day. It was then that Section 4 of the Nova Scotia Automobile Tort Recovery Limitations Regulations was revoked. This section dealt with certain aspects of automobile tort claims and had also set the discount rate for any future losses arising out of an accident at 3.5%.
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Ontario drivers have to pay the highest average auto insurance premiums in Canada, with prices as much as 47% more than some other provinces in the country. Much of this disparity has been attributed to the high auto insurance fraud rate in the country, which is at epidemic levels according to some sources.
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British Columbia’s highest court has decided that passengers riding in a motor vehicle can qualify as engaging in “use” of the car, a distinction which could have “repercussions for the auto insurance industry.”
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The loss ratio, in personal accident benefits for Canadian private auto insurers, rose sharply in 2014, but changes made in Ontario are starting to work their way through the system, an analyst from A.M. Best Company Inc. told insurance professionals Thursday in Toronto.
An injured hospital worker who says his claim was denied by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board — despite backup from a doctor who allegedly provided a medical opinion in his favour — is going public with how he struggled to earn a living after losing his job.\
Dr. Brenda Steinnagel, 50, is alleging in her statement of claim that she was terminated last April after the WSIB repeatedly demanded that her employer, Vaughan-based Workplace Health and Cost Solutions, change the medical opinion she authored on a hospital worker who was claiming benefits after suffering head injuries while trying to restrain a patient.
Prior to September 2010, car crash victims had up to $100,000.00 in available coverage for rehabilitation. To be clear, insurance companies weren’t writing cheques to claimants in this amount. The funds were only available for reasonable and necessary treatment to aid in recovery. Seldom were the limits reached.
Broken bones show up on X-rays, torn muscles on an MRI. But a concussion can’t yet be detected by an easy diagnostic test. Some of the world’s best experts hope that will change soon enough.
Porter, 66, who lives in Grimsby and has a practice in St. Catharines, denies the allegations by Ontario’s medical regulator of misconduct and sexual abuse during his care of the woman between 2008 and 2012. His tribunal, which adjourned last week until November, has yet to hear closing arguments.