“It’s sad. They shouldn’t be able to get away with treating people like that,” Alan Weymouth said in an interview with CTV News.
Alan Weymouth says he’s now being taken for a ride by the insurer of that driver, who was charged criminally in the case, thanks to what his lawyer says is a misinterpretation of Ontario rules.But that misinterpretation is becoming so common it could affect hundreds of people injured in crashes per year and is forcing some home-care providers to scale back their businesses, observers say.
Weymouth was riding his e-bike on Wilson Avenue in March 2022 when he was hit by a driver of a rental car. His bike was destroyed, and he was sent flying. Weymouth was eventually discharged from hospital, unable to work, and needing constant care. He said he was briefly able to access attendant care, which is someone who does basic jobs around the home that he is no longer able to do, before the service was cut off.
In the past, insurers recognized the hourly amounts are low and allowed customers to pool the money from all approved hours to form a monthly total, which could then be paid to the caregiver to cover however many hours that money paid for at their rate, Fotia said. “The insurance companies we were working with understood that it wasn’t a realistic rate to pay for PSWs [personal support workers],” he said, but that’s changed recently. The new approach could affect hundreds of people injured in car crashes across Ontario each year.
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