FAIR – supporting auto accident victims through advocacy and education
FAIR – supporting auto accident victims through advocacy and education
FAIR – supporting auto accident victims through advocacy and education
Catch the Ontario Today show on podcast with Jokelee Vanderkop and FAIR’s Board Chair Rhona DesRoches on the delay and deny tactics of Ontario’s insurers
http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/
Make a comment about how you feel about auto insurance in Ontario http://www.cbc.ca/ontariotoday/2015/01/21/so-you-think-youre-covered/
To order “So You Think You’re Covered! The Insurance Industry Rip-off” see: http://www.deniedbenefitclaims.com/index.html
Lots of comments on the CPSO Transparency Project Phase 2. What do you think about increased transparency when it comes to third party medical opinion vendors who write the medical-legal reports that are the basis for gaining access to benefits for auto accident victims?
You can have your say about transparency and public access to information about physicians and the secret cautions about the complaints about Ontario’s IME vendors here: http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=4981
A consistently dissenting voice has come from the group FAIR (the fair association of victims for accident insurance reform), which feels that the provision within Bill 15 for reducing the Prejudgment Interest to 1.3 per cent will only serve to encourage insurers to dispute more claims.
“There needs to be more accountability, not less,” FAIR’s board chair Rhona DesRoches told Insurance Business. “Without anything to discourage them, insurers will be incentivized to systematically deny claims through the use of partisan medical reports prepared by their preferred medico-legal ‘expert’ assessors to deflate a claim.
http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/ibao-applauds-passage-of-bill-15-185713.aspx
by Jokelee Vanderkop http://www.deniedbenefitclaims.com/index.html
“Based on my own insurance nightmare and successful legal fight culminating in a precedent-setting court ruling, my book guides you through an insurance process that seeks to label the claimant as a ‘scammer’. By mapping out and explaining the assessment process with its numerous insurance medical examinations (IMEs), this book exposes what insurers puts claimants through when it looks like long-term disability and income benefits need to be paid. The advice will help claimants counter some of the more underhanded tactics that insurers employ to deny benefits, and should help shorten the process to procure the benefits owed to you. People not going through this horror also need to know what could happen to them. Learn about the disconnect between paying insurance premiums and receiving insurance benefits.”
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FAIR is concerned that the victims and survivors of car accidents are exposed to significant risk when attending medical assessments and treatment clinics when regulatory oversight and enforcement is virtually non-existent.
Media Release Auto Accident Victims at Risk When Attending Clinics and Assessments Sept 25 14
Concerned about your medical file? The links below are from Information and Privacy Commissioner / Ontario http://www.ipc.on.ca/english/Resources/IPC-Corporate/IPC-Corporate-Summary/?id=667
The 91,818 claims were that denied and ended up in the DRS mediation system between 2010 and 2013 represents a shocking number of people unable to access the benefits they need to recover. The public is becoming aware that they are not getting what they paid for and that our government appears to have a greater interest in the health of our auto insurers’ bottom lines than they do for the health of the citizens of Ontario.
OTHER STAKEHOLDER SUBMISSIONS
Ontario Rehab Alliance ORA Response to KPMG Survey
Ontario Trial Lawyers Association OTLA KPMG Submission. July 2014