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Although technically, an expert is told that he must serve the interests of justice by assisting the court in reaching the truth, and not blindly support the party that hired him, it cannot be denied that most of the time, an expert will be extensively coached on how to answer tough cross-examination questions and skillfully avoid statements that will hurt the party that hired him.
http://www.slaw.ca/2014/02/11/the-future-of-expert-shopping/
More than one-third of insurance customers surveyed are willing to give carriers access to information on their “usage or behavior” if they can get lower rates, about one in eight would consider buying from car dealers and nearly half “would consider comments on social media” when deciding where they would buy insurance, suggests a recent report from Accenture.
http://entwistlepower.com/2014/02/can-the-ontario-government-suck-and-blow.html
Law firms “have always been giving” to political parties, according to Miller, who notes Toronto’s big law firms are particularly generous. The most common way law firms contribute is through the purchase of tables at political party fundraisers.
More heartache for families of catastrophically-injured accident victims as attendant care costs are capped – According to personal injury lawyer Darcy Merkur, this change “discriminates against persons not currently in the workforce, like retirees, stay-at-home parents, and the unemployed, who are restricted from being compensated for providing needed and valued care to their seriously injured loved one.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/07/liberals-reduce-medical-benefits
According to the results of new research thousands of parents are committing auto insurance fraud by pretending that they are the primary driver of a vehicle that is actually being used mainly by their student daughter or son.
http://www.liveinsurancenews.com/auto-insurance-lies-common-among-parents/8532165/
Detroit’s annual average premium for auto insurance is $10,732 – about 10 times higher than many U.S. cities, according to Nerdwallet.com, a consumer-information site.
Intact Financial Corp. stated Wednesday it plans to launch usage-based insurance in Ontario in April and will drop rates, by 5% on average, by targetting discounts to safe drivers.
Using the information shared publicly through those social media sites, and others such as LinkedIn or photo sharing site Instagram, can be critical when investigating potentially fraudulent or exaggerated claims, she said.
In a budget submission to Finance Minister Charles Sousa, the right-wing lobby group called for dramatic — and politically unpalatable — changes to the way business is done at Queen’s Park. These include: scrapping “corporate welfare,” such as the investments Ontario has made to companies like Cisco Systems in order to attract jobs, which could save $2.7 billion annually.