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Driverless Cars Will Create Cities with No Parking Lots, Congestion, Collisions and No Car Insurance
HCDB standard report August 2014
Ontario Health Claims Database HCDB Standard Report August 2014 with data on claims costs
Cost Proportionality Not Always Kind to Injured Plaintiffs
When it comes to the issue of legal costs, the proportionality concept is a welcome feature in civil litigation but it can serve to penalize personal injury plaintiffs with modest personal injury claims.
Supreme Court denies insurer leave to appeal ruling on auto insurance family protection endorsement
The Supreme Court of Canada recently dismissed an application, from Lombard General Insurance Company of Canada, for leave to appeal a court ruling against Lombard over the limitation period on claims under the Ontario auto family protection…
What about victims? It’s time to focus more on those hurt in automobile crashes, less on the concerns of insurance companies
Isn’t it odd that when we read or talk about auto insurance, we focus on premiums or fraud?
We rarely read or talk about the interests of accident victims.
Maybe that’s because it would be politically embarrassing to discuss their interests.
Social Security Tribunal struggling with massive backlog: documents
Ailing, disabled and unemployed Canadians seeking benefits have been facing increasingly long waits to have their appeals heard, even as full-time positions on the government’s woefully backlogged Social Security Tribunal have remain unfilled.
Ontario’s 20-year graduated licensing system has saved lives, but experts say more can be done
In 2012, an internal Ontario Ministry of Transportation assessment concluded teen G2 drivers who had completed driver’s training were 12 per cent less likely to be involved in a fatal collision than a teen driver without training.
Collision reporting centres give impaired drivers time to sober up: police union
Not only are police courting liability claims with the advent of its collision reporting centres, but they also might be giving drunk drivers and others involved in accidents a way to avoid prosecution, says an Ottawa Police Association spokesman.
How a tragic accident taught Jason Day the price of a dream
Day held out hope, doctor after doctor, MRI after MRI, but ultimately each avenue ended in exasperation. Canadian insurance giant ICBC draped his case in red tape, and slowly Day drifted to the background, stuck in limbo, a fighter-no-more clawing for some semblance of an answer.
FSCO Decision Reinforces Viability of Retrospective Attendant Care Needs Assessments (Form 1′s)
A new arbitration decision from the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) affirms previous decisions that a retrospective attendant care needs assessment (commonly referred to as a “Form 1″) are viable.