Accident victims victimized with Ontario 2015 budget

  Ontario's "Building Ontario Up" 2015 budget which was released yesterday (April 23, 2015) has some very negative news for motor vehicle accident victims. Worse, some media think the changes regarding auto insurance represents a loss for insurance companies. Canadian Press, in their "Commuters and students win, while insurers lose"  April 24, 2015  article in  the Waterloo Record is completely off the mark. The writer says, under the heading “Losers” in the Ontario budget, that insurance companies lose because they will be required to give drivers a discount for using winter tires and will lose some interest money in lowering the maximum interest charged on monthly auto insurance premium payments. This budget is a home run for insurers with the aforementioned loss a pittance to the gains insurers will make. http://deniedbenefitclaims.com/blog.html


 ...This government has also approved, with IBC lobbying, a redefinition of catastrophic injuries. Catastrophic injuries now imply a paraplegic, quadraplegic, someone blinded in a car accident, or someone who has lost a limb or has serious brain injuries. Insurers point to total  claim costs and how they are rising, therefore requiring higher premiums, but they don’t mention that the increase is not because of what they pay out to claimants but what they pay their third-party-for hire medical ‘experts’ to assess and counter what a claimant’s own treating doctor (or doctors) has determined and this in order to be able to deny benefits. Their medical vendors are paid much more than in private practice making it worthwhile to keep the job and write whenever possible in the insurers favour. Meanwhile, claimants are sent to multiple and repeated insurance examinations in order for these ‘insurance vendors’ to find a way to deny benefits.

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 http://deniedbenefitclaims.com/blog.html