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Tim Hudak says PCs will cut personal taxes 10% after balancing budget

by Admin2
Rates have come down an average of close to six per cent since August 2013, according to Ministry of Finance figures.
Still, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says the current system is “simply not working.”
“Too much of the money doesn’t actually go to accident victims,” the bureau says on its website.
“Instead, it pays for other costs like legal fees, fraud and assessments by for-profit medical facilities.”

Horwath promises immediate cuts to auto insurance rates

by Admin2
Ontario’s New Democrat Leader Andrea Horwath says she would force insurance companies
to pass on rate reductions to motorists immediately.

Ontario election: NDP leader Andrea Horwath vows quicker action on auto insurance rates

by Admin2
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says the Liberals are in the pocket of big insurance companies
and could care less about the motoring public.

Car insurance step into the election ring

by Admin2

Auto insurance premiums are once again taking centre stage for the Ontario elections, with the Opposition charging the Liberals are now focused on protecting the industry and not the 15 per cent chop consumer were promised.

http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/car-insurance-step-into-the-election-ring-177717.aspx

How we cut our car insurance bill by 30 per cent: Mayers

by Admin2

A year after the Ontario Liberals were prodded by the NDP to give us a 15 per cent cut in provincial car insurance rates, we’ve seen a 6 per cent average reduction with the promise of more to come.

http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2014/05/11/how_we_cut_our_car_insurance_bill_by_30_per_cent_mayers.html

Committee Transcripts: Standing Committee on General Government – 2014-Apr-30 – Bill 171, Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014

by Admin2

We need insurance reform – The sorry state of Ontario’s auto insurance should be a major election issue

by Admin2

There’s no shortage of issues for Ontario’s June 12 election: Out of control hydro prices, the sad state of the economy, pension reform, transit funding and, of course, all the Liberal scandals.

Once again, the issue of auto insurance reform is likely to be left at the curb with no party championing those injured in auto accidents.

It’s a pity as the state of Ontario’s auto insurance cries out for reforms to protect accident victims. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/05/09/we-need-insurance-reform

Fraud, overbilling, theft: Ontario’s rogue lawyers

by Admin2

According to law society documents, Vinti Sansanwal, at the time national claims director with HB Group insurance in Mississauga, would approve personal injury files for hundreds of thousands of dollars more than what had been negotiated with claimants.

Pachai, acting as the lawyer for the insurance company, altered documents to reflect the inflated bogus amounts, while sending off the true lower amounts to claimants. In one case, a claim was settled for only $5,000 but Pachai doctored the documents sent to the company to show it was $225,000.

The law society says Pachai and Sansanwal then split the excess settlement funds on a 50-50 basis. They did this 11 times between 2005 and 2007. The law society found Pachai kept close to half of the $1.5 million the scam raked in.

http://projects.thestar.com/broken-trust/case-files.html

 

FAIR cries foul over Bill 171 hearings

by Admin2

DesRoches continues that “it might be easier to think of those tens of thousands of people lined up at FSCO to have hearings as fakers and malingerers but the numbers don’t lie, they are a reflection of a broken system and not a reflection of rampant fraud in the system.

http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/fair-cries-foul-over-bill-171-hearings-177622.aspx

Horwath Misleads Voters: Orazietti

by Admin2

Provincial NDP Blocked Appointment to Financial Accountability Office, Stalled Legislation to Lower Auto Insurance Premiums

http://www.saultonline.com/2014/05/horwath-misleads-voters-orazietti/