Claims
An Ontario auto claimant is facing a reduction in federal employment insurance (EI) benefits because she was getting income replacement benefits with her auto insurer. In 2019, Antonina Sennikova was involved in a motor vehicle accident that prevented her from returning to work. As a result, she got IRB from Aviva General Insurance Company in […]
By Greg Meckbach | October 20, 2021
3 min read
Clients could be surprised at the fire and explosion risk to which they are exposed if they are in the 3D printing business or produce dust of any kind. “It is easier to name the dusts that are not explosible than to name the dusts that are,” said Martin Clouthier, vice president and global service […]
By Greg Meckbach | October 19, 2021
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The Supreme Court of Canada will hear arguments, from federal aviation accident investigators, that cockpit voice recordings should not be made available to personal injury plaintiffs who are trying to sue an airline over an accident in Halifax. On March 29, 2015, an Air Canada Airbus A320 that originated from Toronto struck the ground short […]
By Greg Meckbach | October 15, 2021
A software consulting firm that was sued in Quebec for $6.25 million can rely on a limitation of liability clause in its consulting and integration contract, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a decision released Friday. In 6362222 Canada inc. v. Prelco inc., Canada’s top court overturned a 2019 Quebec Court of Appeal ruling […]
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A dispute over the handling of sales tax in Ontario auto accident benefits claims could reach the Supreme Court of Canada. In 2018, several auto clients filed lawsuits in Ontario against accident benefits insurers. Plaintiffs allege those carriers either included harmonized sales tax in the calculation of the claimants’ entitlements, or that the carriers paid […]
By Greg Meckbach | October 13, 2021
By Edward Struzik, Fellow, Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Ontario. This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. When record-breaking wildfires in western Russia killed […]
By Jason Contant | October 13, 2021
6 min read
A Supreme Court of Canada decision released Thursday means if your client is riding a certain type of scooter in British Columbia, they must be licensed and insured. In 2018, Ali Moussa Ghadban was stopped by a police officer in Surrey, British Columbia, while riding a Motorino XMr scooter. The officer discovered Ghadban had neither […]
By Greg Meckbach | October 7, 2021
A New Brunswick judge ruled last week in favour of a guaranteed asset protection (GAP) insurance provider that denied a claim from a motorist who borrowed money to buy a vehicle which was later destroyed by fire. In 2017, Jason Larsen bought a Chevrolet Cruze. At that time, Larsen also bought a policy called True […]
By Greg Meckbach | October 6, 2021
4 min read
A Montreal-based claims executive with Liberty Mutual is one of eight people who died Sunday after an airplane crashed in Italy. Julien Brossard, who was Liberty Mutual Canada’s vice president of specialty claims, joined the insurer in 2012. A Pilatus PC-12 airplane crashed Oct. 3 into a vacant two-story office building outside Milan, according to […]
Even as B.C. wildfires continue to burn, investigations begin and claims start rolling in.
October 6, 2021
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