Fair Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform
579A Lakeshore Rd. E, P.O. Box 39522
Mississauga, ON, L5G 4S6
Hi Ms. Bursey
My name is Rhona DesRoches and I am the Board Chair of FAIR Association
of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform. Today I read on your website
that the the Ombudsman is looking to expand the areas in which it can
investigate and make recommendations.
Will
these new powers allow investigation into the plight of Ontario's
vulnerable accident victims when it comes to the Ministry of Finance and
the Financial Services Commission - both of whom are discriminating
against Ontario's disabled?
Will
there be powers to change the Colleges, in particular, the CPSO who are
hiding complaints about the third party assessors who abuse accident
victims? Is there a way that we can undo the policy at the colleges that
disabled MVA victims are considered 'clients' rather than patients so
that they have the same rights as any other patient or disabled person?
Will
there be a way to get the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board to
make the Colleges accountable rather than dismissing appeals (by often
cognitively impaired and seriously injured accident victims) with a
standard response of the complaint is 'frivolous and vexatious'? HPARB
has taken on a practice of assisting those medical professionals who
cause harm by making their names anonymous (when they do take action)
and thereby keeping information from the public about the for-hire
assessors that are causing so much harm to the disabled.
Is
there a way to stop the use of these often bogus and partisan
'independent' medico-legal reports from being used as 'facts' when those
who are unable to get their benefits from their insurer (because of
these shoddy reports) make an application for ODSP or CPP? Our members
are subjected to dozens of these examinations in the course of a claim
and only a few are properly prepared by qualified and independent,
respectable physicians/assessors - there are absolutely no standards in
play here when the colleges refuse to take action in a public way that
would protect Ontarians. Can we fix that and make the process fair?
Will
it be possible to do away with the use of highly partisan and biased
'expert' consultants on panels that make the recommendations to the
Superintendent of Insurance that later gets passed into more unfair
legislation that discriminates against accident victims?
Auto
accident victims are treated as if they are third class citizens in
Ontario - no doubt about that - is there a way that Ontario's Ombudsman
can correct that? We are treated with disrespect, maligned by physicians
and assessors, scammed at every turn, and punished for having the
temerity to use a product our government has forced us to buy.
Are
these new powers going to be a tool to help these vulnerable
individuals? For more information on how badly an accident victims is
treated during the course of a claim please visit our website pages: http://www.
For more information about what we do please visit:
We
certainly hope that the Ombudsman's office will take an interest and we
look forward to hearing back from you on these issues.
Regards
Rhona DesRoches
FAIR, Board Chair
http://www.fairassociation.ca/
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