Open letter to FSCO:
Honourable J. Douglas Cunningham, former Associate Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.
Senior Manager, Insurance Policy Unit
Industrial and Financial Policy Branch
Ministry of Finance
95 Grosvenor Street, 4th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1Z1
Dear FSCO:
According
to the Ontario Automobile Insurance Dispute Resolution System Review
Interim report, beginning in 2007 FSCO began to experience a dramatic
increase in Applications for Mediation.
In 2006 – 07, FSCO received 13,053 new applications and in 2011– 12, received 35,727 applications — a 174 per cent increase.
As
a result, FSCO was not able to meet the legislated 60- day time line
for mediation and a backlog of files awaiting assignment to a mediator
developed.
At the end of December 2011, there was a backlog of approximately 30,700 files,
FSCO
was receiving an average of 2,949 new Applications for Mediation every
month and claimants were waiting in excess of 11 months for mediation.
The FSCO backlog created forced settlements.
Victims
of insurance had no choice but to sign forced settlements because
Insurance Companies cut benefits off just before settlement.
When
victims were told that mediation could take up to or more than a year to
get heard. We had no choice. With no income, no justice, disabled, what
can you do, we got screwed.
By purposely creating this backlog,
these forced settlements were illegal, immoral, and insurance companies
profited greatly by them.
I suggest that all the victims of these forced settlements be compensated.
Why not a class action lawsuit in this regard?
No
names have been posted on this blog in accordance to the forced
settlement agreement. That’s why you don’t hear from the victims of
insurance.
Sincerely,
Administrator,
http://survivingacollision.blogspot.ca/
Cc:
autoinsurance@ontario.ca
Fair Association Of Victims For Accident Insurance Reform
Toronto Sun- Alan Shanoff
Letter to the editor Toronto Sun .
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