Neutral Citation: 2004 ONFSCDRS 50
FSCO –008446
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION OF ONTARIO
BETWEEN:
ABA M. ALAMIN
Applicant
and
THE TTC (MARKEL INSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA)
Insurer
REASONS FOR DECISION
Before:
John Wilson
Heard:
January 12, 13, 14 and 15, 2004, at the offices of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario in Toronto.
Appearances:
Ms. Alamin was unrepresented.
Leonard Wilgus for the TTC (Markel Insurance Company of Canada)
Issues:
The Applicant, Aba M. Alamin, is a Somali immigrant who was living in Canada, raising a family of 6 children as an unemployed single parent, when she was injured in a TTC bus accident on March 21, 1993. While she was standing in the bus, it was hit by a tow truck. She applied for and received statutory accident benefits from Markel Insurance Company of Canada, the then insurer for the TTC, payable under the Schedule.1 Ms. Alamin was then involved in another incident, in a taxi-cab, on September 14,