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we actually did it because the government finally agreed to stop making us drain our work benefits after a wreck. i cant say thank you enough to the 609 of you who pushed for this change. now we just have to keep an eye on them to make sure the …

July 5, 2022

Ontario Auto Insurance should pay for accident injuries NOT your personal Work Benefits.

Ontario Auto Insurance should pay for accident injuries NOT your personal Work Benefits.

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Started by Ontario Physiotherapy Group 4 years, 6 months ago

Let's Ask Doug Ford and the Ontario government to obligate auto insurers to pay for your treatment following a car accident FIRST and stop auto insurers from draining, and emptying your personal work benefits.


Dear Doug Ford and the Ontario government,

Please stop auto insurers from draining, and emptying our personal work benefits and oblige auto insurers to pay for treatment from a car accident first!

Our Work Benefits should not pay for injuries due to a car accident!.

This petition asks the Ontario Government to change the regulations forcing us, the people of Ontario, to exhaust their rehabilitation work benefits before accessing funding from the auto insurance for a car accident.

Only in Ontario. Almost no other Jurisdiction in the world asks us to dig into our work benefits when we are involved in a car accident.

This isn't fair!

We believe as citizens of Ontario we should have a right to choose when the work benefits we pay for should be used. We believe we should not be forced to exhaust them as a result of a car accident. We believe car insurance should pay for treatment following a car accident.

No other jurisdiction in the world asks its' citizens injured in a car accident to pay for their own rehabilitation out of their work benefits!

We believe having to go through a person's work benefits for a car accident causes undue hardships on local therapy clinics that provide care to injured motorists by significantly increasing the invoicing administrative burden and red tape.

We believe people should have their work insurance available to them if an auto insurer denies their treatment as a secondary safety net.

It is unfair that the auto insurer requires them to use their work benefits first!

We believe that the AUTO INSURER and not the person's work benefits should be the primary payee for injuries sustained in a car accident.

Please sign and share this petitions with clinicians and patients.

Updates

Reached 500 supporters

May 4, 2022

Reached 100 supporters

March 8, 2022

114 Comments

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Carolyn Suski
4 years ago Featured

I administer MVA plans at our clinic. Having to submit to extended healthcare plans is cumbersome and not always timely. Many people pay for their benefits with AFTER TAX DOLLARS, and then have to use those benefits so that auto insurers can avoid payouts? And we pay insurance premiums as well???

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Mary Luccisano
4 years ago Featured

If a worker gets injured at the workplace they are NOT use their extended health benefits. In the same regard if someone becomes injured in a MVA they should not use their extended health benefits.

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Cindy Dennis
4 years ago Featured

patients should not have to exhaust their extended health benefit coverage for auto injuries. I have had many patients that have exhausted their benefits and then later in the year had a new injury that they were unable to fund their treatment with due it being used up by the auto insurance claim.

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Tammy keffer
4 years ago Featured

I have recently been in a car accident. My benefits have been drained. I have recurrent back issues and now I have to pay out of pocket for treatment. The Mva rates are higher so my benefits get drained a lot sooner. What is the point of having insurance if they don’t cover you MVA recovery fully

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Melanie Hines
4 years ago Featured

This is the most backward system. It is unfair to chronic sufferers that need their extended healthcare to last them the year. It is also an admin nightmare. Why do people pay for car insurance if all they do is weasel out of the "coverage"?

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Alykhan Jamal
4 years ago Featured

It's unethical, you pay 2 separate premiums, for 2 separate reasons. Why does a car accident automatically force patients to exhaust their workplace benefits; then when an automobile insurance company choses not to cover further required services, the patient is left to pay our of pocket.

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Peter Nadorvolgyi
3 years ago

Insurance has no right to touch our work benefits.

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Jessica Kay
3 years ago

Agreed!