Impact of Ontario’s health-care crisis on personal injury law, claimants

By Ashu Ismail (September 27, 2022, 2:02 PM EDT) -- Ontario’s health-care system is in crisis, provoked in large part by the COVID pandemic. Surgical and diagnostic imaging wait times have increased dramatically. Emergency departments have been forced to close for hours or days at a time because of nursing and staff shortages. Thousands of hospital beds are occupied by non-urgent patients because long-term and alternative care facilities are overwhelmed and understaffed. In addition, more than 10 per cent of Ontarians do not have a family physician and must use overcrowded walk-in clinics or emergency departments for their health-care needs....