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CALGARY – A Canadian Pacific freight train parked on a frigid night in the Rocky Mountains began to move on its own before a derailment that killed three workers and sent 99 grain cars and two locomotives hurling off the track. The Transportation Safety Board says the westbound train had been parked on a grade […]
By Greg Meckbach | February 6, 2019
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Nearly two dozen homes were damaged after one fatal incident Sunday near Toronto. An explosion demolished a house in Caledon, killing Joseph Westcott and damaging neighbouring properties, The Canadian Press reported. About 22 homes were “damaged to varying degrees,” Andrea Gaynor, fire investigation supervisor for the office of the Ontario Fire Marshall and Emergency Management, […]
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Recreational cannabis has been legal for nearly four months, but it’s too early for Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer to tell whether it’s having an impact on auto claims frequency. Senior managers with Intact Financial Corp. were asked Wednesday whether marijuana legalization is having an impact on Intact’s financial performance in personal auto. “From […]
Motorists insured by Aviva Canada will no longer have to make their own first notice of loss (FNOL) to the carrier if they report the accident to a collision reporting centre. This is because Aviva Canada is rolling out an automatic FNOL service at all collision reporting centres in Ontario and Alberta. “The customer and […]
By Greg Meckbach | February 5, 2019
Insurance defence lawyer William S. Chalmers, managing partner at Hughes Amys LLP, has been appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Toronto. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1987, Justice Chalmers practised law at Hughes Amys LLP for over 30 years. As an insurance defence lawyer, he handled more than […]
By David Gambrill | February 5, 2019
FIELD, B.C. – A Canadian Pacific freight train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary in a derailment that killed three crew members, a union representative said Monday. The westbound freight jumped the tracks at about 1 a.m. near Field, B.C. Greg Edwards with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference […]
By The Canadian Press | February 5, 2019
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A subrogated claim could go off the rails if the client is bankrupt. The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it will not hear a subrogation case involving Desjardins, which applied last year for leave to appeal Douglas v. Stan Fergusson Fuels Ltd., released by the Court of Appeal for Ontario in March 2018. The […]
By Greg Meckbach | February 4, 2019
CALEDON, Ont. – A man has died and dozens were forced from their homes after an explosion completely demolished a house in Caledon, Ont., on Sunday morning, officials said as they investigated the incident. Officers were called to the home at about 6:20 a.m. on Sunday, said Const. Iryna Nebogatova. Police have identified the deceased […]
By The Canadian Press | February 4, 2019
New amendments to rules surrounding the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) in Ontario “have sent a dagger into the heart” of one insurance defence lawyer. Effective Feb. 7, 2019, Rule 18 of the LAT will be amended to allow, among other things, reconsideration requests to be heard by any member of the tribunal, not just the […]
By Jason Contant | February 1, 2019
Newfoundland’s auto insurance regulator, the Public Utilities Board (PUB), has tabled a thorough, 186-page report on what ails the province’s auto insurance system – with no recommendations to fix it. The chair of the PUB told the hearings held on the Auto Insurance Review in June that “the board is not a public policy instrument […]
By David Gambrill | February 1, 2019
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