June 26, 2022

Carjackings on the rise; make sure your auto insurance has you covered

“Basic, standard auto policies might not have theft coverage — you have to specify it.”

Insurance Agent examine Damaged Car and customer filing signature on Report Claim Form process after accident, Traffic Accident and insurance concept
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“Latest Vaughan carjacking caught on doorbell camera.”

“Arrests made in alleged violent Oakville carjacking.”

“Pair faces 100 charges after 10 Toronto-area carjackings.”

“Gunpoint carjacking in Burlington neighbourhood.”

When Maple Leaf Mitch Marner had his SUV stolen at gunpoint one evening in May outside a local movie theatre, it put a very public face on a crime that seemed to have exploded overnight. It’s not just here. Like the GTA, places like New York City are also reporting a dramatic increase in the often-violent thefts. By the time Marner was relieved of his Range Rover, Toronto police said they’d already reached 2021’s yearly total, not even six months into 2022.

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June 26, 2022 by INSURANCE

Mexico: Barriers for Trans People in Guanajuato State

(León) – Trans people in the Mexican state of Guanajuato experience discrimination in work and education and onerous legal impediments due to the state’s lack of legal gender recognition, Human Rights Watch and Amicus DH said today. Guanajuato should comply with Mexican and international law and create an administrative procedure to allow trans people to accurately reflect their self-declared gender identity on official documents.

Each of Mexico’s 32 states has the authority to determine its laws and policies in civil, family, and registration matters in accordance with the constitution. So it is up to the state legislature or administration to pass a law or enact an administrative decree that enables legal gender recognition through a simple administrative procedure at a state-level civil registry. Twenty Mexican states already have such a procedure. Guanajuato does not.

“Trans people in Guanajuato are disadvantaged in work and education and weighed down with legal proceedings due to state authorities’ undue delay in recognizing the right to gender identity,” said Cristian González Cabrera, LGBT rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Guanajuato should align its laws with national and regional jurisprudence and establish a legal gender recognition procedure, which would reduce discrimination against transgender people in work,

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June 26, 2022 by LEGAL
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