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April 6, 2023

MVA Insurers

Ontarians Risk Distracted Driving Despite Knowing the Danger

. 57% of respondents considered distracted driving the “greatest threat to road safety”, ironically 24% still engaged in distracted driving behaviours. The most common distractors were...

April 5, 2023

Employers

Increased Wages & Less Working Hours Due to Absenteeism

A new report published by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce found that although employment is up more than 3% since the beginning of the pandemic, working hours have only increased by 1.75% due...

March 23, 2023

Lawyers

Marijuana-Related Psychosis Increases Dramatically

, drug legalization groups and the cannabis industry lobby for the legalization of marijuana.

March 22, 2023

MVA Insurers

Alberta has highest annual car insurance premiums

, drivers in Alberta paid the highest annual car insurance premiums in Canada in 2023. The top four of the five cities where drives faced the highest annual car insurance premiums were Calgary...

March 16, 2023

Disability Insurers Employers

Nearly Half of Disability Claims by Federal Employees are for Mental Illness

. This comes after an earlier study stated that employees are “drowning in a pool of repetitive, menial and uninspiring tasks,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter. A report by the Department...

March 15, 2023

Disability Insurers

Steroid Injections May Worsen Arthritis

, intended to treat arthritis in the knee, may actually worsen the condition. Data gathered by researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Chicago Medical School observed...

March 9, 2023

Lawyers MVA Insurers

Charges for Driving While Impaired by Drugs Increase for the Fourth Year in a Row

0 from Western Standard According to an article published by Blacklock’s Reporter, the number of people caught high behind the wheel is up for the fourth year in a row. Stats Canada data also...

March 8, 2023

Disability Insurers

Why We Should Expect Insurance Companies to Sue Vaccine Manufacturers

. Yale University epidemiologist Harvey Risch predicts that insurers will be looking for financial compensation from Covid-19 vaccine makers to cover “early expected mortality claims” which would...

March 1, 2023

Lawyers MVA Insurers

One-third of Recent Cannabis Users reported Driving While High

% of Canadians who report having used cannabis in the previous year also reported having engaged in cannabis-impaired driving. 26% of Canadians who reported using cannabis at some point in their...

February 23, 2023

Disability Insurers MVA Insurers

Are We Treating Acute Pain Wrong?

-inflammatory medication may be counterproductive. By using medication like ibuprofen or aspirin to treat pain, we may be promoting pain in the long term. A paper published in Science Translational...