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Monias Fiddler says time is moving slowly for the Sandy Lake First Nation as the community feels the immense weight from the loss of three children in a house fire last month. Grant Meekis, 9; Remi Meekis, 6; and Wilfred Fiddler, 4, died when their home was engulfed in flames on the Oji-Cree First Nation […]
By Jason Contant | February 14, 2022
4 min read
Six insurance companies and a pulp and paper manufacturing company, Fortress Specialty Cellulose, have lost their bid to have a PowerPoint presentation about the cause of a commercial explosion protected under litigation privilege. In rejecting their argument, the Superior Court of Quebec found that only documents exclusively made for the purpose of preparing for litigation […]
By David Gambrill | February 11, 2022
3 min read
More than a week after the “freedom convoy” rolled into Ottawa, some in the P&C industry are discussing whether or not business interruption claims due to civil disobedience are insured risks. Ottawa’s downtown centre has been paralyzed with vehicles and tents blocking roads for days, as protestors call for an end to Ottawa’s COVID […]
By Alyssa DiSabatino | February 7, 2022
The Court of Appeal of Manitoba has dismissed a case in which a claimant provided no evidence for his $300,000 claim for contents lost in a fire that destroyed his farm. In the original trial, Frenchie’s Farm and Ranch Ltd v Peace Hills Insurance Company, the lower court ruled the plaintiff was not entitled […]
By Alyssa DiSabatino | February 2, 2022
The cost of cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells across Canada could skyrocket between 2020 and 2025, says a new report from Canada’s parliamentary budget officer. Provincial regulators require oil and natural gas companies to close inactive or abandoned well sites. But when there is no known financially viable operator capable of addressing the […]
By Alyssa DiSabatino | January 31, 2022
2 min read
The Insurance Council of Manitoba (ICM) has fined a licensee from Crawford & Company a total of $10,000 – $5,000, plus an additional $5,000 for the assessed partial investigation costs – for failing to ensure adequate on-site supervision of the firm’s employees. Specifically, in a decision released Jan. 18, council found that an Level 4 Manitoba-licensed […]
By Alyssa DiSabatino | January 26, 2022
COVID-19 has shown that Canadians appreciate insurance agents and brokers with good attitudes and product knowledge. But insurance companies are still struggling with basic service issues like phone wait times, billing/payment, and policy cancellation, according to an analysis of more than 4,000 car insurance reviews conducted by insurance review platform InsurEye. Customers’ reviews of claims […]
By David Gambrill | January 25, 2022
Claimants who sought a settlement with insurers over HST being deducted from their accident benefits have lost their bid to have their claims certified as class actions. The Supreme Court of Canada rejected leave to appeal the case on Jan. 20, meaning the Ontario Court of Appeal Case stands. The Appeal Court found the court […]
By David Gambrill | January 24, 2022
B.C.’s Supreme Court has upheld an insurer’s insistence that a mining company’s business interruption losses were subject to a $10-millon sublimit and not to the full policy limit of $250 million. That said, the court did not agree with the insurer that the same $10-million sublimit applied to both the physical damage to a tailings […]
By David Gambrill | January 21, 2022
The City of Revelstoke, B.C., has been found 35% contributorily negligent for not adhering to a recommendation contained in a 2011 risk management audit, which advised to maintain painted ‘No diving’ signs on a raft in Williamson Lake Park. “The city received, and failed to follow, specific risk management advice that ‘no diving’ signs be […]
By David Gambrill | January 19, 2022
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