Monday, January 12, 2015

To Ontario’s MPPs – does Ontario no longer want an honest justice system?

There is increasing evidence that Ontario’s auto accident victim’s medical files are routinely being altered to suit Ontario’s insurers need to save money. Portions of medical reports have been removed, manipulated or even changed entirely without the author’s knowledge or consent in order to minimize victim injuries. Signatures have been forged or used without permission in many cases. All of these deceitful acts are done to mislead our justice system and to lower claims costs.
Claimants have long known about the shady and unacceptable deceptive nature of claims handling in Ontario. It’s time that our legislators and law-makers acknowledge Ontario’s insurance company fraud, whether it be an adjuster, an assessor, assessment centers, treatment facility or the insurer themselves whose policies support or encourage swindling legitimate claimants out of the coverage they paid for.
What are Ontario’s legislators going to do about this insurance fraud? Has it become so deeply ingrained in the system and accepted by our lawmakers that it is now a universally accepted deceptive business practice? A recent revelation from a respected Ontario litigation lawyer (below) reveals just how common this practice of deceiving claimants and our courts about the severity of their injuries is.
Is this what you signed up for? Is this what the fight on fraud is all about – just a one sided attack on claimants? When a trier-of-fact lays it out there that "State Farm accepted the opinions of its medical advisors to support its routine denials of benefits" (below) isn't it time to acknowledge that the word ‘routine’ means insurer fraud is happening on a daily basis and harming legitimately injured MVA victims?
Will you continue to slash coverage while calling it fighting fraud or is Ontario going to do something about this systemic disease that threatens the very nature of our justice?
Accident victims deserve better and we depend on our courts for justice when insurers behave badly. Ontario’s consumers expect our legislators to act in the best interests of the people of Ontario and we look to you to enact legislation that protects consumers from fraud and unacceptable business practices that cause harm.
Sincerely,
Rhona DesRoches
FAIR, Board Chair
‘FAIR – supporting auto accident victims through advocacy and education’

Source: http://www.fairassociation.ca/
 

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