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The poll asked, “Should ICBC be privatized?” Of the 4,344 people who responded, 3,182 said it should be privatized while only 1,162 felt it shouldn’t.

http://www.castanet.net/news/BC/147064/Anti-ICBC-sentiment-strong

If you alone are not strong enough to vanquish your opponent, you must find someone who is – and then find a way to set them against each other

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/31/us-should-mandate-gun-insurance

The new definition of catastrophic impairment, in Ontario’s standard accident benefits schedule (SABS), “includes new and/or updated definitions and criteria for traumatic brain injuries for adults and children, amputations, ambulatory mobility, loss of vision, and mental and behavioral impairments, and introduces a new process for combining physical with mental and behavioral impairments,” FSCO said in a bulletin Tuesday.

http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/new-ontario-auto-catastrophic-impairment-definition-starts-in-2016/1003787075/

The government promised to reduce automobile insurance rates in Ontario by 15% in the 2013 budget. It has been two years, and Ontarians are not seeing anything close to a 15% rate reduction in their insurance premiums. What we are seeing are significant and continuous cutbacks to insurance coverage, without any real changes from the insurance industry.

http://oatleyvigmond.com/insurance-rates-on-the-rise-as-coverage-declines/#.VeijMH1qS1A

TORONTO – Mallorie Wild says she’s still haunted by what she remembers of the morning a drunk driver ran her over.

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/02/woman-sues-drunk-driver-bar

LSUC is not proposing a change to the rule itself that allows Ontario lawyers to advertise. Rather, the law society is contemplating a couple of changes to the rulebook text that provides some detail on what types of marketing practices might violate the rule. LSUC has invited lawyers to comment on those changes until Oct. 15.

http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/blog.html?b=business.financialpost.com//legal-post/drew-hasselback-your-ad-here-or-not

Ask 10 drivers how their no fault accident benefits work, or how no fault car insurance works, you’ll get 10 different answers. All of them will likely be wrong. Ask 10 lawyers who don’t practice in the field of persona injury law, you’ll probably get the same wrong answers! Even funnier is if you ask 10 different politicians, the ones who actually passed the laws to create no fault accident benefit insurance in Ontario, and they won’t know either.

http://www.torontoinjurylawyerblog.com/2015/09/tips-on-completing-the-application-for-accident-benefits-ocf-1-and-other-ocf-claim-forms-ontario.html#more-790

In today’s case (Park v. Targonski) the Plaintiff was injured in a collision and sued for damages.  At trial future care costs were awarded including $8,500 for treatments from a pain clinic.  The Defenant argued that these damages should be deducted as ICBC must cover the cost under the Plaintiff’s no fault beneifts.

http://bc-injury-law.com/blog/pain-clinics-mandatory-icbcs-part-7-benefits?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IcbcLaw+%28ICBC+Law%29

“Why can’t I have an affordable lawyer of my own? I pay for the justice system where you lawyers earn a very good living compared to me. But I must use the second-best solutions of clinics, and pro bono and targeted legal services, and various forms of self-help. You say you take this ‘access to justice’ problem very seriously. I don’t believe that. If you were serious and ethical, you would be trying to solve the problem. You can’t show me anything that you have done about trying to solve the problem. I can’t have an affordable lawyer of my own because you use your monopoly over legal services to serve yourselves, but not the needs of the public for legal services. Why should I give my respect and tax money to your justice system?”