Hard road for car crash victims

Why is the Ontario government taking away money they deserve and transferring it to the insurance industry?

How nice for the insurance industry. Take money from deserving accident victims and give it to insurance companies.
Instead of increasing the deductible the government ought to abolish it.
There’s no principled reason to apply a deductible....

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http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/12/hard-road-for-car-crash-victims

 

Should pain-and-suffering deductibles be abolished?

In August, the Ontario government passed a regulation that increased the mandatory deductible for no-fault pain and suffering claims from $30,000 to $36,540, and one law expert feels that this was done “without any debate or meaningful notice.”.....

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http://www.insurancebusiness.ca/news/should-painandsuffering-deductibles-be-abolished-196295.aspx

Profits Soar for Ontario Auto Insurance Companies

The stated aim of the deductible is to eliminate “nuisance” cases from the system. But that is achieved by the threshold. The deductible is just another way to line the pockets of auto insurance companies. If the Ontario government sees the need to tie the deductible to inflation,why are no-fault accident benefits not tied to inflation?.......

Last week, an updated study from York University School of Business Professors Fred Lazar and Eli Prisman was released that reveals consumers likely overpaid $1.5 billion in the last two years for auto insurance. This includes overpayments of $700 million (or about $100 for each insurance policy) in 2014 on top of the $840 million ($120 per policy) in 2013.....

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http://otlablog.com/profits-soar-for-ontario-auto-insurance-companies/

WANTED MEDICAL Professionals

Canadian Insurance News is conducting an investigation into the Minister of Employment and Social Development office in Chatham Ontario Canada.

Mostly we are looking for information that will lead to the procecution of the medical individules reposible for the backlog of appeals going to the Social Security tribunal of Canada.

Help us help disabled Canadians get what they paid for and make sure these pay-for-hire government doctors stop delaying, denying, and using wait for them to die tactics against legitimately disabled Canadians.

We can only fix the problems at the Social Development office in Chatham if we work together to expose these corrupt induviduals and set an example of just one of them.

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Ontario Taking Action to Protect Patient Privacy and Improve Transparency

Ontario intends to introduce legislation today that, if passed, would improve privacy, accountability and transparency in the health care system with new measures that put patients first.....



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http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2015/09/ontario-taking-action-to-protect-patient-privacy-and-improve-transparency.html

Fired Hamilton doctor sues WSIB over "fraud upon the public”

Dr. Brenda Steinnagel, 50, is alleging in her statement of claim that she was terminated last April after the WSIB repeatedly demanded that her employer, Vaughan-based Workplace Health and Cost Solutions, change the medical opinion she authored on a hospital worker who was claiming benefits after suffering head injuries while trying to restrain a patient.....

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http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5928759-fired-hamilton-doctor-sues-wsib-over-fraud-upon-the-public-/

WSIB lawsuit: Fired hospital worker details struggles after losing his claim

An injured hospital worker who says his claim was denied by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board — despite backup from a doctor who allegedly provided a medical opinion in his favour — is going public with how he struggled to earn a living after losing his job......

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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/26/wsib-lawsuit-fired-hospital-worker-details-struggles-after-losing-his-claim.html

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