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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 […]
By The Canadian Press | January 15, 2020
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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 The Canadian Press | January 14, 2020
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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 The Canadian Press | 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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Will the Ontario government get around to reforming liability for slips and falls on ice before the winter ends? Bill 118, which passed second reading June 6, is intended to make it easier for clients to defend themselves against lawsuits from plaintiffs saying they slipped and fell on ice. But after more than a month […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 9, 2020
Intact Financial Corp. is pegging its catastrophe claims at $115 million for the fourth quarter of 2019 alone, more than double the figure for the same period in 2018. Intact released its $115 million estimated catastrophe loss Tuesday. The company has yet to release its full financial results for 2019. The actual current-year catastrophe loss […]
Ottawa’s bills for dealing with natural disasters neared half a billion dollars in two of the last three years amid a warning to Canadians that this country was one of the worst affected by climate change in 2018. Data from Public Safety Canada lists the average annual bill for disaster assistance at $430 million over […]
By Jason Contant | January 9, 2020
An Ontario municipality was recently found not liable for an electrical hazard created when a light pole at a sports field was struck by lightning, allowing the light to continue functioning while letting current leak into the ground near the pole. On Aug. 15, 2012, Zoe Onley, then 18, was placing soccer at the Iroquois […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 8, 2020
How should risk managers handle situations where their workers could encounter hazards off site? A recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling in favour of Canada Post could provide some guidance, a lawyer suggested Tuesday to Canadian Underwriter. “It is now clear that federal employers, in most cases, do not have a statutory obligation to conduct […]
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