Personal Injury Blog

Accident Benefits Update: Insurers Still Refuse to Fund CAT Assessments

An ongoing source of frustration for seriously injured car accident victims concerns the refusal by their accident benefits insurers to fund assessments for a determination of Catastrophic Impairment (catastrophic). The Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) sets out the obligations on...

ACCIDENT BENEFITS UPDATE: SERVICE FEE RECOVERY

If you have been seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident, it can be difficult performing routine tasks that you used to take for granted. You may feel fatigued, frustrated and overwhelmed. At the same time your insurance company will be pressuring you to return to work and resume your daily...

Costs Insurance Is a Compensable Disbursement

In the recently released Costs decision, Stewart et al. v. Wood et al. [2019 ONSC 3931] Justice Tausenfreund was required to assess costs and disbursements in a settled personal injury lawsuit.

Bad Faith by Accident Benefits Insurer?

On July 19, 2019, the Ontario Court of Appeal released Stegenga v Economical Mutual Insurance Company 201 ONCA 615). The central question on appeal concerned the jurisdiction of the Licence Appeal Tribunal to hear a bad faith claim against Economical for its handling of the plaintiff, Morgan...

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