Officials with the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario (IBAO)’s telematics subsidiary have discussed usage-based auto insurance with the Alberta regulator and are urging Alberta’s brokers to tell carriers that brokers need to have access to policyholders’ telematics data.
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Partnership is the Best Weapon in the Battle Against Auto Insurance Fraud
Canadian auto insurers have a major problem with insurance fraud. The problem is also worsening substantially every year, and in Ontario alone it has reached a price tag of $1.6 billion a year (Robertson & Perkins, 2011)
Personal privacy eroded as public, private sectors share info
Personal information is flowing between the public and private sectors in unprecedented ways, posing fresh risks to privacy, says a new book on surveillance in Canada.
Data gathered for one purpose may easily be used for another when public and private organizations share data, flying in the face of fair information practices, says “Transparent Lives: Surveillance in Canada.”
Is the government checking you out on Facebook?
“the public availability of personal information on the Internet does not render personal information non-personal. It is our view that departments should not access personal information on social media sites unless they can demonstrate a direct correlation to legitimate government business.”
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/is-the-government-checking-you-out-on-facebook-1.1812110
Proposed WSIB changes will hurt workers, advocates say
Workers’ advocates charge that hundreds of injured workers have, like Harris, been denied benefits for pre-existing medical conditions since 2010, when the former Dalton McGuinty government appointed David Marshall as WSIB president.
They blame Marshall’s marching orders “to reduce and ultimately retire” the board’s $12 billion unfunded liability, the difference between current funding levels and long-term payouts to injured workers. They say this financial imperative is behind a proposed new WSIB policy on pre-existing conditions that would “fundamentally change” the system and throw thousands of injured workers into poverty.
J.D. Power Reports: One in 10 Canadian Customers Switch Auto Insurance Carriers
The study, now in its seventh year, measures insurance customer experiences with their primary auto insurer in Canada. Customer satisfaction is measured across five factors (in order of importance): interaction; price; policy offerings; billing and payment; and claims. Insurers are ranked in three provinces: Ontario, Alberta and Quebec.
Andrea Horwath’s Auto Insurance Credibility Problem
Andrea Horwath’s credibility on auto insurance rates has been publicly called into question…by one of her own candidates.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1350321/andrea-horwath-s-auto-insurance-credibility-problem
The worst of both worlds
When Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor David Onley granted Premier Kathleen Wynne’s request to dissolve the legislature, it wasn’t only the proposed budget that was put to the sword. Work also stopped on a key piece of legislation designed to reduce automobile claims costs. http://www.insblogs.com/auto/worst-worlds/
Why do Ontario lawyers who steal rarely go to jail?
They treat client trust accounts as their personal piggy banks, facilitate multi-million-dollar frauds and drain retirement savings of the elderly. While most lawyers caught stealing from their clients are reprimanded, suspended or disbarred by the profession’s regulator, the vast majority avoid criminal charges, a Star investigation reveals.
Torstar News Service found that more than 230 lawyers sanctioned for criminal-like activity by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the last decade, stole, defrauded or diverted some $61 million held in trust funds for clients.
http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/1022986/why-do-ontario-lawyers-who-steal-rarely-go-to-jail/
Get In The Know: The Difference Between Government and Private Auto Insurance – How To Choose
Everyone wants affordable and dependable auto insurance that provides the coverage they require. Some people think the answer to their needs is instituting a Government-run auto insurance program.