Quebec's pure no-fault insurance system seems poised to
pay out benefits to an accused murderer. While most no-fault systems
have many good aspects, they are often outweighed by the bad, say lawyers.
Quebec personal injury lawyer Marc Bellemare is on somewhat of a personal crusade against no-fault insurance.
ER P By Mark Cardwell
ersonal injury lawyer and former Quebec justice minister Marc Bellemare thought he'd seen the summit of injustice 20 years ago, when a drunken army corporal who killed four young people during a high-speed chase through a Quebec City suburb received $86,000
in indemnities for a lost eye — twice the amount the victims' grieving families got in total. But if the alleged murderer of the four women found in a car at the bottom of a canal in
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