{"id":312,"date":"2007-05-07T14:46:17","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T19:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/?p=312"},"modified":"2007-05-07T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T19:46:17","slug":"odsp-benefits-not-deductible-from-mva-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"ODSP Benefits Not Deductible from MVA Damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2007\/2007canlii14934\/2007canlii14934.pdf\">Moss v. Hutchinson &#038; Associates<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Mr. Justice Peter Howden has ruled that benefits received by a plaintiff from the Ontario Disability Support Program (&#8220;ODSP&#8221;) are not deductible from an award of tort damages. The action arose out of a motor vehicle accident that occurred on September 19, 2000 and so, fell under the Bill 59 regime of the <em>Insurance Act<\/em>. Liability was admitted but the defendant took the position that ODSP income support benefits totalling $69,872.31 should be deducted from any tort damages for income loss or loss of competitive advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Howden held that because it was a condition precedent of receiving these benefits, that the claimant agree to reimburse ODSP out of any tort damages received, this type of benefit is unlike others (such as CPP) which <em>have<\/em> been held to be deductible. The repayment requirement is, in itself, a protection against double recovery. As a result, His Honour ruled that the ODSP beneifts were not deductible under s. 267.8(1) of the <em>Insurance Act<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Moss v. Hutchinson &#038; Associates, Mr. Justice Peter Howden has ruled that benefits received by a plaintiff from the Ontario Disability Support Program (&#8220;ODSP&#8221;) are not deductible from an award of tort damages. The action arose out of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=312\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto","category-collateral-benefits","category-damages","category-insurance-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}