Ontario Car Insurance

Insurance consumers are not taking advantage of discounts: Kanetix
Canadian Underwriter
Insurance consumers in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta are leaving money on the table by passing up discount opportunities, Kanetix says. Kanetix, an online quote comparison website, recently published 2011 Q4 auto insurance rate results for Ontario, ...
Ontario car insurance rates increase 2.9 per cent says Kanetix.caDigitalJournal.com (press release)

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Salem lawyer Gatti faces ethics complaint
Statesman Journal
The long-time lawyer has represented a wide variety of clients — from women scarred by cosmetic surgeries to car crash victims and people claiming they were ripped off by insurance companies. In the early 2000s, Gatti emerged as the leading litigator ...

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Geordi 'was here for a reason'
Ottawa Citizen
But it was five feet long and wouldn't fit in a car, if George had one, which she did not. When the family (Geordi had an older sister) went out, George borrowed her mother's car and left the wheelchair at home. She then put a parachute-like harness on ...

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Crown appeals court's BB-gun ruling
Ottawa Citizen
... by two private investigators hired by Ontario's Workplace Safety Insurance Board. Dunn's been on workers' compensation for 10 years because of a back injury. Dunn had gone to a garage to pay a friend for a repair bill for his girlfriend's car.

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Canada's most popular cars..for thieves
Castanet.net
by Grant Scott - Story: 70556 Every year, the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) releases its annual list of the top 10 most frequently stolen vehicles in Canada. The 2009 Toyota Venza was the most stolen car in Canada in 2011.

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IBC offering course to help spot signs of car-crash scams
News1130
The Insurance Bureau of Canada has created an online course for police officers that teaches investigators about the tell-tale signs of fraud. It was developed with help from York Regional Police in Ontario, but it's available for free for police ...
Canadian police to learn more about staged collisionsCanada NewsWire (press release)

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Insurance benefits backlog a nightmare for accident victims
Toronto Star
By Josh Rubin Staff Reporter Getting hurt in a car crash is bad enough, but for many people in Ontario, it's only the beginning of a lengthy nightmare. People turned down for accident benefits by insurance face a wait of as long as two years before ...

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Shafias not eligible for auto insurance payouts: SAAQ
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL – The Shafia family members convicted Sunday of four counts of first-degree murder have made no request for compensation from the Quebec auto insurance board for the four relatives found dead in a car in an Ontario canal - and such a request ...

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Accident victims denied benefits, survey claims
Toronto Star
Gurevich said the Alliance had requested information about the insurance industry's denial rates from Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI), an initiative of Ontario auto insurers, which transmits claim forms between insurers and health care ...

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Auto insurance rates rise
Toronto Sun
But because just under half of all companies offering auto insurance, or 46%, were approved for a rate increase, the average increase drivers will see is 1.84%. The Ontario government, which regulates the industry and approves the rate changes, ...

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