Ottawa Lawyer: Don’t let your adjuster RIP YOU OFF!
Yet again this week our Ottawa personal injury lawyer received a telephone call from an Ottawa accident victim who told us that he cannot get more physiotherapy through his accident benefits because his adjuster has "closed his file". Meaning what, exactly? She put it in a drawer? She is [...]
Accident Benefit Lawyer: Using Your Extended Health Care Benefits
Ask a Personal Injury Lawyer: Why do I have to put my medical expenses through my medical benefits from work before the accident benefit insurer will pay me? Personal Injury Lawyer's Answer: Ontario accident victims often ask why their insurance company requires them to use the extended health care [...]
Ottawa Car Accident Lawyer: Insurance In-home Assessments
Read this article by Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer Brenda Hollingsworth on How to Survive an In-Home Assessment to ensure you receive all of the benefits you are entitled to. If you have been injured in an Ontario motor vehicle accident as a driver, passenger, pedestrian or cyclist, you are likely [...]
Ottawa Lawyer | Changes to Ontario Accident Benefits
As a personal injury lawyer I know that if you have been injured in a car accident in Ontario, you have probably dealt with Ontario's accident benefits. These benefits are also known as "AB's", no-fault benefits, or SABS. Starting September 1, 2010, there will be significant reductions of the [...]
Accident Benefit Cuts will Hurt Ontario’s Injured | Ottawa Lawyer
Our personal injury lawyers are very disappointed about these developments. If you or a loved one suffer a car accident after September 2010, your accident benefit insurance company will only have to support you for $50,000 in medical and rehabilitation benefits, unless you are catastrophically injured or subject to [...]
Ontario Makes Cuts to Auto Accident Insurance Coverage
Ottawa Personal Injury and Accident Lawyer Brenda Hollingsworth discusses coverage changes on CBC TV (click to view) Ottawa Personal Injury and Accident Lawyer Brenda Hollingsworth discusses the changes on CBC Radio’s “All in a Day” (click to listen) OTTAWA LAWYERS – Effective September 1, Ontario’s government has made drastic [...]
Ontario Statutory Accident Benefits- What are they and How do you get Them
If you have been in a car accident in Ontario, ask an experienced personal injury lawyer about your entitlement to statutory accident benefits (SABS). Until they are in a motor vehicle accident, most people in Ontario do not realize that they have no-fault accident benefits which provide rehabilitation and other [...]
Getting Compensation if You were At Fault in an Accident
Please do not assume that you cannot benefit from an Ottawa personal injury lawyer's advice because you think, or the police think, that you caused the accident. Do not dismiss the possibility of recovering damages in a single car accident. #1: Ontario Statutory Accident Benefits, also known as "No-fault benefits" Very significant [...]
Death and Funeral Benefits Available Through Statutory Accident Benefits
After a fatal motor vehicle accident, regardless of who was at fault for the accident, there are certain benefits available through the statutory accident benefits (also known as SABS, ABs or no-fault benefits). The most important provisions provide: The accident benefit insurer will pay a death benefit relating to [...]
Important Answers About Statutory Accident Benefits
QUESTION 1: I was in a car accident. Who Pays my Medical Expenses? Ontario has a partial no fault car insurance system. That means that there are certain benefits that are paid to an injured person regardless of whether or not you were at fault in the accident, subject [...]
