Tuesday 8 January 2013

Insurance News - Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Tuesday, January 8, 2013:

4 comments:

  1. Wasn't the legislation amended a few years ago so as to make it a deceptive practice for an insurer to rely on an unqualified assessment (IME/IE) to deny policy benefits? Wasn't a fine the intended remedy for this form of transgression (deceptive practice)? Has such a fine ever been levied? If not - why not? Or am I wrong - was no such legislative change made a few years back? But if there was such a change - how is this "new" administrative fine much different in terms of a remedy for unqualified insurer assessments? Could you please clarify? I'm confused.

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  2. Regulation 7/00 does not deal with assessment reports. There was a provision a decade ago but was removed by the provincial Cabinet the last time they amended the regulation.

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    1. Are you saying that there was a provision made a decade ago that included unqualified assessments as a deceptive practice (punishible be fine) but which was subsequently removed by Cabinet? Why was it removed? And doubly "why" - given all these years later the same Liberal Cabinet is finally re-enacting the provision that serves as a remedy for unqualified/substandard insurer assessments?

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  3. I am not privy to Cabinet decisions.

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