Readmission to hospital is relatively common after traumatic brain injury, but a study recently published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation found that TBI patients in Ontario are re-hospitalized at significantly higher rates than were previously reported.
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Minding The Gap: A Cautionary Tale For Insurance Brokers
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently allowed a motion for summary judgment against an insurance brokerage and the individual broker for failing to meet their duty of care to arrange adequate insurance coverage.1
http://www.ilstv.com/minding-the-gap-a-cautionary-tale-for-insurance-brokers/
Tried and True
There is no getting around it: claims adjusters will encounter difficult and demanding claimants. But when a claimant grows unreasonable and combative, demanding too much, what is the best course of action for an adjuster wanting to advance a truly fair settlement and meet fiduciary duties to his or her employer?
http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/news/tried-and-true/1003654632/?type=Print%20Archives
Abolition of the 5% PJI rule in MVA cases, prospective or retroactive?
In the past weeks, have received numerous inquiries and feedback from the bar and the bench on my Gilbertson Davis LLP litigation blog post on s. 258.3(8.1) of the Insurance Act, regarding the abolition of the special 5% rule on prejudgment interest in motor vehicle tort actions. Many colleagues in the civil defence bar have told me they have printed it out and used it as leverage at mediations and pretrial conferences.
Ontario Passes Legislation to Improve Road Safety
Today, Ontario passed the Making Ontario’s Roads Safer Act to help ensure that the province’s roads are among the safest in North America.
MD watchdog becoming less secretive
New measures, adopted by the regulator last Thursday and Friday, also include calling on the province to get tougher with physicians who sexually abuse patients, calling for “mandatory revocation” of doctors’ licences in all cases of “physical sexual contact” with patients.
http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2015/06/01/md-watchdog-becoming-less-secretive.html
Ontario announces pilot aimed at helping people with disabilities get jobs
It’s investing 1.8-million dollars in the new Abilities Connect Fund — a one-year pilot project in partnership with the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
Hundreds rally against cuts to auto insurance benefits
TORONTO – Changes to auto insurance benefits for motor vehicle accident victims passed in the Ontario legislature Wednesday as part of the provincial budget.
“God help us all,” Tammy Kirkwood said upon hearing the news. “We’re getting a lot less coverage for a lot more money and I’m not sure why.”
Kirkwood was one of hundreds of protesters at Queen’s Park rallying against reductions in auto insurance benefits which they say will have the most effect on victims with catastrophic injuries.
The 47-year-old Orillia woman said protesters were “flabbergasted” that the provincial government “was trying to disable our resources and our funding to recover.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/06/03/hundreds-rally-against-cuts-to-auto-insurance-benefits
Bad news for crash victims
TORONTO – Last month’s Ontario budget continued the erosion of accident benefits for victims in motor vehicle accidents.
The reductions are most significant for those suffering from catastrophic injuries.
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/05/30/bad-news-for-crash-victims
Nearly half of auto liability claims come from reversing accidents
“The frequency of accidents occurring during parking and maneuvering has increased by more than 30% over the past ten years,” says Rüdiger Hackhausen, Head of Claims at Allianz Versicherungs-AG. “These accidents make up 44% of auto liability incidents with physical loss or damage, and 39% of full physical damage collisions.”