Claims
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government will implement a $5,500 cap on pain and suffering for pay-outs to vehicle accident victims in a move to save $1 billion a year for the province’s public auto insurer. Attorney General David Eby says the settlement limit on those injury claims will not take effect until April 2019, […]
By The Canadian Press | February 6, 2018
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A B.C. woman has received a court award for $362,102 in damages after developing a debilitating neck pain following two minor fender benders that occurred three years apart. Even though the court reduced the award from what the injured driver had initially requested, the decision provides an example of why insurer auto liability costs are […]
By David Gambrill | February 6, 2018
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Insurance professionals should be planning in advance how they will get emergency funds into the hands of their insured clients during a natural catastrophe, a senior Intact Insurance executive told the C4 2018 conference in Ottawa Friday. Finding alternative ways to send insurance funds to evacuees during a catastrophe is one lesson learned after the […]
By David Gambrill | February 5, 2018
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Fire claims investigations can certainly highlight life’s ironies. Consider the case of the firefighters who were called out to a blaze one day at about 3 p.m., only to return to the station and find a fire blazing in their firehall kitchen. “When we were called in, there was no clear indication of the cause […]
By Jason Contant | February 5, 2018
Will one word – ‘solely’ — affect the scope of additional insured coverage? In Brookfield Johnson Controls Canada LP v. Continental Casualty Company, Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Ferguson considered the breadth of an insurer’s duty to defend an additional insured, potentially shedding new light on how extensive — or in this case, restrictive — […]
By Michael S. Teitelbaum, Partner, Hughes Amys LLP | February 5, 2018
Drivers excluded from coverage on their own policies can still claim accident benefits on the policies of other drivers, as long as they weren’t driving the vehicles from which they were excluded coverage, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled Friday, after considering two separate situations. In The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company v. […]
By Greg Meckbach | February 5, 2018
Canadian insurers are not rushing in to correct a gap in earthquake coverage in eastern Canada right now, primarily because they have a lot of risk on their plates already, an industry representative told the C4 2018 conference in Ottawa Friday. “To be candid, since 2009, the insurance industry has faced a remarkable decade of […]
By David Gambrill | February 4, 2018
Alberta has experienced a disproportionate share of the extreme weather catastrophes in Canada over the past decade, causing insurers to question whether the province is a viable place to do business. The question was raised Friday at the C4 conference in Ottawa, where a conference panel discussed why the province’s average home insurance premium soared […]
The owner of a Winnipeg home who experienced basement flooding in 2010 has lost her bid to sue both the couple who sold her the home and the sellers’ real estate agent for allegedly misrepresenting the extent of foundation cracks. The Supreme Court of Canada announced Thursday it will not hear an appeal, from Lianne […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 2, 2018
TORONTO – An insurance company that played litigation hardball with an elderly car-accident victim has been ordered to pay $237,000 to cover the legal costs she incurred in winning a $20,000 settlement. In her decision, Ontario Superior Court Justice Mary Sanderson said it would be contrary to public policy to reward the insurance company’s uncompromising […]
By Jason Contant | February 2, 2018
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