Claims
Buried under a record-breaking 76 cm of snow over a 48-hour period, and with 15-20 cm more snow in the forecast Monday, it will be a while before claims adjusters will be able to assess the damage of the massive winter blizzard that hit Newfoundland & Labrador last weekend. St. John’s and neighbouring cities in […]
By David Gambrill | January 20, 2020
3 min read
A Kelowna couple have been sued for $168,000 after a house they sold suffered basement flooding. In Brunning v. Cummings, released Jan. 13, Supreme Court of British Columbia Justice Gordon Weatherill awarded the damages to Cheri and Joel Brunning. The damages are based in large part on how much it would cost the new owners […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 20, 2020
5 min read
The World Economic Forum is sounding the alarm that the top most-likely global risks are all environment-related. In the group’s 15th annual Global Risk Report, survey respondents listed their Top 5 most-likely top global risks in 2020: It’s the first time a single category has occupied all five top spots, Børge Brende, World Economic Forum […]
By Adam Malik | January 20, 2020
If your clients are selling their home, should you ask whether prospective buyers want written assurance that any oil tanks are removed and the soil cleaned up? Scott Warren and Antonia Camille Fantillo sold their home in early 2016. They have been successfully sued, for nearly $45,000, by buyers who later discovered an oil tank […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 17, 2020
A British Columbia court ruling in favour of Intact Insurance Company and Economical Mutual Insurance Company is now final. A Vancouver-based dry cleaners that wanted to make a pollution-related claim with the two insurers, under commercial general liability policies, cannot appeal the coverage dispute to the Supreme Court of Canada, the top court announced Thursday. […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 16, 2020
2 min read
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 […]
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
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 […]
By The Canadian Press | January 16, 2020
1 min read
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
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