Showing posts with label injured. Show all posts
Showing posts with label injured. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Broker Negligence Claims: Are You Adequately Covered?


Is your insurance broker adequately inquiring about your insurance needs? With the substantial decline of available medical, rehabilitation and attendant care benefits from $2 million to $1 million for catastrophically injured individuals, this is a question that will be asked more often in the realm of motor vehicle insurance. The recent cutbacks to the accident benefits regime in Ontario are expected to have profound effects on those seriously injured in accidents.

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Monday, December 12, 2016

Ont. Super. Ct. finds that the terms of a consent form for a s. 44 SABS assessment must be agreed to by the parties and cannot be imposed by the insurer


In Intact Insurance Company v. Beaudry, Ontario Superior Court Justice Beaudoin held that absent a prescribed form, or a standard form that may be devloped by the various stakeholders, the insurer and insured must agree on the consent form for assessments by healthcare practitioners under s. 44 of the SABS before they can be conducted.

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http://www.hughesamys.com/blawg/blawg-post/blog/2016/10/19/ont.-super.-ct.-finds-that-the-terms-of-a-consent-form-for-a-s.-44-sabs-assessment-must-be-agreed-to-by-the-parties-and-cannot-be-imposed-by-the-insurer


Sunday, June 5, 2016

Inquiry into Medical Evidence petition

Link to: Inquiry into Medical Evidence petition

FAIR has put together a paper version of the petition calling for a Public Inquiry into the medical evidence used in our courts and administrative tribunals. It is the same as the one we have asked you to sign online.

The Ontario Legislature ONLY accepts ORIGINAL petitions, on paper, with ‘hand signed’ signatures. There are strict rules for petitions so NDP MPP Jagmeet Singh’s office has generously agreed to receive the paper petition in his office and present it at Queen’s Park.

If you or a loved one were injured in an auto accident, at work or elsewhere wouldn’t you want an honest, unbiased and qualified medical opinion/report of your injuries? That’s just not happening in Ontario for injured and disabled individuals who make a claim for benefits through their private or public insurers. What if it was your fault that something happens to someone else? You’d want them to have the best chance at recovery wouldn’t you?

Please print, sign and circulate the petition because quality and qualified medical evidence shouldn’t be something we need – it should be something we already have because there is no real justice without it.

Make a copy and mail the ORIGINAL copies to: MPP Jagmeet Singh, Room 172 Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park 111 Wellesley St. Toronto, ON M7A 1A5
Thanks for being part of the collective voice needed for change!

Other On-line petition: https://www.change.org/p/the-legislative-assembly-of-ontario-support-a-public-inquiry-into-medical-evidence-in-ontario-s-courts-and-tribunals (these signatures are also important to make our point elsewhere and it gives those on-line the power and opportunity to use their voice)

Source: http://www.fairassociation.ca/

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Sudbury doctors lead WSIB charge


Spurred on by concerns raised by Sudbury doctors, the NDP on Thursday called for the province to investigate what it calls the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's interference with the medical care of injured workers.......

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SOMEONE SHOULD INVESTIGATE THE DOCTORS AT SERVICE CANADA IN CHATHAM ONTARIO

Doctor suing WSIB and former employer over fraud claims


(Canadian OH&S News) — A Hamilton, Ont. doctor has filed a lawsuit against the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) and her former employer, Workplace Health & Cost Solutions (WHCS) in Vaughan, for wrongful dismissal from the latter — claiming that the former tried to force her to change her medical opinion about an injured worker, before pressuring the latter to fire her....

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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Preventable Medical Error Is Canadian Healthcare's Silent Killer

In Canada, medical errors and hospital-acquired infections claim between 30,000 and 60,000 lives annually. Thousands more are injured. Then there is the ocean of emotional harm that engulfs families when a loved one is lost to the kind of hospital mishap experts say is often preventable....



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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/kathleen-finlay/medical-error-deaths_b_8350324.html




Medical marijuana seems to help chronic pain patients: Study

TORONTO -- A benchmark study has found that patients who use medical marijuana to treat chronic pain don't have more serious side-effects than sufferers who don't use the herb....

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http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/29/medical-marijuana-seems-to-help-chronic-pain-patients-study

MDs legal insurer should be made accountable

the Canadian Medical Protective Association, which has $3.2 billion in funds heavily subsidized by the province through Ontario doctors, should be subject to regular audits by the Auditor General and be required to make public how much it pays out to injured patients and how much it is spending on legal costs to defend doctors..........


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http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/10/01/mds-legal-insurer-should-be-made-accountable.html