Personal Injury
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January 24, 2025
Auto accident benefits adjudication: Backlog reduction but troubling trends | David Muir
In its latest annual report, Tribunals Ontario is proclaiming the end of the backlog at the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT). The LAT deals with a wide range of issues, but the vast majority of its applications — more than 96 per cent in 2023-24 — are to its Automobile Accident Benefits Service (AABS), which resolves disputes between people injured in car accidents and their own insurance company, over such benefits as medical treatment and income replacement. The rest of the cases before the LAT go to its General Service, which deals with cases under more than three dozen statutes.
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January 24, 2025
FOR TORTS - Affecting the person - Defamation - Method of publication - Oral statements
Appeal by Appellants from the motion judge’s decision finding them without valid defense in respect of the Respondent's defamation claim. The case stemmed from a public meeting where the Respondent criticized certain books in school libraries discussing gender identity.
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January 23, 2025
Supreme Court of Canada to hear challenge against Quebec’s secularism law
The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear a constitutional challenge against a Quebec law that prohibits certain public workers from wearing religious symbols while performing their duties.
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January 23, 2025
Alberta court certifies class action over alleged abuse of Indigenous students at school
An Alberta court has certified a class action over the alleged physical, emotional and sexual abuse of Indigenous children at a school in Bonnyville, Alta. between 1966 and 1974.
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January 22, 2025
Alberta court certifies class action targeting Calgary school board over alleged abuse at school
The Alberta Court of King’s Bench has certified a class action lawsuit alleging that staff at a Calgary Board of Education (CBE) school knew and “failed to respond properly to the many disclosures of abuse” made by students against two teachers at the school.
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January 22, 2025
Domestic violence in Ontario: End of the beginning part two | Michael Cochrane
In the previous four columns I have tried to look at the scourge of domestic violence from some unusual angles, considered it an economic problem for families and society, scrutinized some ill-conceived proposed solutions and pondered ways in which we might prevent it from infecting relationships to begin with.
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January 22, 2025
Reforming combative sports safety: The case for unified regulation in Alberta
Combative sports, including boxing, kickboxing, and mixed martial arts (MMA), have skyrocketed in popularity in Canada over the past few decades. The high-risk nature of these sports lends to their excitement and entertainment value but also carries the inherent danger of life-altering injuries and participant fatality. In Alberta, the recent death of an amateur MMA fighter has reignited concerns about the safety of combative sports and the need for regulation and oversight.
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January 21, 2025
Importance of tempering AI with human perspective | Courtney Mulqueen
While artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its worth in streamlining the disability insurance claim process, its use must be tempered with the human perspective.
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January 20, 2025
Medical officers’ council urges stricter vaping regulations to protect Canadian youth
Canada's Council of Chief Medical Officers of Health (CCMOH) has recommended that federal, provincial and territorial governments take steps to regulate the sale of vaping products amid concerns about a substantial rise in nicotine vaping among Canadian youth.
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January 17, 2025
U-Haul faces proposed class action in Quebec over alleged failure to use winter tires on rentals
Truck rental giant U-Haul is facing a proposed class action in Quebec over allegations that it rented out its vehicles to customers without winter tires as required by law and failed to inform them.