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/

Accident Benefit Coalition Victim Survey

Accident Benefit Coalition Victim Survey is for Accident Victims who were injured in Ontario Motor Vehicle Collisions (MVCs). The purpose is to collect information regarding victims’ experience in regards to obtaining Ontario Accident Benefits from insurers. Absolutely no personal information is collected or shared.

The Accident Benefit Coalition (ABC) consists of a membership of Ontarians concerned with issues surrounding the provinces’ mandatory Accident Benefits. It was founded by NeuroConnect and FAIR Association and is committed to advocating for Accident Victims in Ontario.

Survey for claimants: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AutoInsurer

Please share this survey with others you know who have gone through the claims experience!

The petition is still going https://www.change.org/p/ontario-mpps-finance-minister-charles-sousa-stop-reducing-ontario-accident-benefits

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.”.....

MORE:

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

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....

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

 

Orillia woman involved in serious collision slams province’s planned changes to insurance industry

Tammy Kirkwood said the province’s plan to reduce auto-insurance benefits that was passed as part of the budget earlier this year will severely hurt crash victims requiring extensive care....

More:

http://www.orilliapacket.com/2015/10/02/orillia-woman-involved-in-serious-collision-slams-provinces-planned-changes-to-insurance-industry

CPP Disability take a number now serving appeal 200,000

What are the number of appeals backlogged at the Social Security Tribunal?

The following comment was made by Fair Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform on the Toronto Sun site back in November of last year.

In February of this year Minister Jason Kenney pledged to wipe out the Social Security Tribunal backlog of 11,000 by this summer.


The backlog was also discussed later in the house by Mr. Robert Aubin (NDP).
He said: "Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday the chair of the Social Security Tribunal confirmed that there are significant delays in the processing of cases: 14,677 cases are languishing on her desk."


So what are the numbers now?


More importantly, how would you get rid of such a backlog of appeals...fairly?


The Tribunal Chair refuses to acknowledge or respond to my letters as an appeal applicant, or as an advocate for these disabled Canadians that have been waiting for years at the tribunal backlog.


Knowing that these disabled Canadians can't respond our government has reaped the $$$ in withholding these benefits. Appeals in the take-a-number-lineup because of bad decisions by Service Canada and their policy of delay, deny, wait for them to die.

In my case these benefits that my employers and I have paid into mandatorily since 1979.

http://survivingacollision.blogspot.ca/2015/01/delay-deny-wait-for-them-to-die-at-sst.html

http://survivingacollision.blogspot.ca/2015/05/where-do-victims-go-when-insurers-dont.html

And what of my appeal that was launched back in 2008?

Will it be fairly heard after my blogging about the Social Security Tribunal and advocating for the unknown thousands of Appellants?

What do I have to do to be heard and what will It take to at least acknowledge my correspondences by the Social Security Chair Ms. Brazeau.

Sincerely,
Mr. xxxx xxx
Surviving a Collision:   http://survivingacollision.blogspot.ca/
Crash Survivor 2007.



Social Security Tribunal says more than 14,600 Canadians are now waiting for a hearing:
http://survivingacollision.blogspot.ca/2014/11/social-security-tribunal-says-more-than.html