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Are your clients checking the bathrooms before they leave work for the day? “The last thing you want is to leave someone with access to your property after the doors have been locked,” Northbridge Insurance noted in Closing time: Making sure your building is safe for the night, recently posted to the commercial insurer’s blog […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 16, 2020
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Is it time the insurance industry starts zeroing in on a single definition of catastrophe? Traditionally, the industry would offer a named perils policy outlining specific catastrophe coverages or an all-risks policy, which covered risks unless they were specifically excluded. But Phil Cook, property and casualty insurance consultant and chairman of Omega Insurance Holdings Inc., […]
By Jason Contant | January 16, 2020
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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Residents of eastern Newfoundland are bracing for a blizzard on Friday. Blizzard warnings have been issued for much of the region, where up to 70 centimetres of snow is expected to fall on the northeastern edge of the Avalon Peninsula. The forecast says blowing snow will reduce visibility to zero in […]
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You’re on your way to work minding your own business when all of a sudden you drive over a massive pothole and damage your car. Does your auto insurance cover it and can the city be held liable? In short, pothole damage is covered under optional auto insurance policies and the city can be held […]
By Jason Contant | January 15, 2020
The British Columbia law intended to immediately get impaired drivers off the road could be headed – yet again – to the Supreme Court of Canada. Canada’s top court announced Jan. 10 that Larry Edward Lemieux has applied for leave to appeal Lemieux v. British Columbia (Superintendent of Motor Vehicles), released this past June by […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 15, 2020
VANCOUVER – A powerful snowstorm that has closed part of Highway 1 east of Vancouver, shuttered every public school and university across southern Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver, has now led to a rare blizzard warning for a region just north of the city. Environment Canada issued the warning for the Howe Sound area early […]
MONTREAL – Some 125,000 Hydro-Quebec customers are without power after freezing rain and strong winds sent tree branches crashing onto power lines and caused havoc on the roads. The largest number of affected customers are in the Monteregie region southeast of Montreal, where some 113 outages have left almost 105,000 people in the dark as […]
By Jason Contant | January 14, 2020
If you allow your child to ride in a vehicle allegedly driven by an impaired driver, and your child sues you for negligent parenting, does the vehicle liability policy cover you? Not as it stands. But the question could be put to the Supreme Court of Canada, which announced Friday that Bradley Hunt is applying […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 13, 2020
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VANCOUVER – Metro Vancouver is enduring its first major snow storm of the winter as snowfall warnings cover the entire inner south coast and eastern Vancouver Island, while many other parts of British Columbia also face nasty conditions. Snow reached the south coast overnight and Environment Canada says as much as 25 centimetres could blanket […]
By Jason Contant | January 10, 2020
A recent decision of the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) concerning an ice fishing accident in Ontario shows that insurers cannot simply rely on the opinions of medical assessors when determining a claimant’s needs, according to one insurance defence lawyer. In Malitskiy v. Unica Insurance, LAT’s adjudicator found that the insurer in a catastrophic impairment case, […]
By David Gambrill | January 9, 2020
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