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Canadian property and casualty insurers cannot be the sole financial backstop for homeowners who build their homes in high-risk flood areas, a senior industry executive told a catastrophe risk conference in Ottawa. “We have to resolve the issue of high-risk properties, because the insurance industry in the current environment cannot be there to save high-risk […]
By David Gambrill | February 2, 2018
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Catastrophe models that Canadian insurers use to predict flood damage should be open-sourced, free and accessible to everyone, says the chief executive of an open source cat modelling platform. A common theme at the C4 conference in Ottawa, organized by Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ), is that Canadian insurers, governments, academic researchers, scientists and […]
A class-action lawsuit arising from last year’s Equifax cyber breach is proceeding in Ontario on the basis of a new invasion-of-privacy tort that has caught the eye of Canada’s property and casualty insurers because it allows courts to award damages even when no economic loss is proven. In a ruling released Jan. 24, the Ontario […]
By Greg Meckbach | February 1, 2018
British Columbia’s government is considering caps on awards, in auto insurance personal injury lawsuits, for pain and suffering for minor injuries, the province’s attorney general told Canadian Underwriter Tuesday. With a cap on minor injury claims, Insurance Corporation of B.C. could cut claims costs by $300 million and $380 million a year, MNP LLP estimated […]
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A law clerk “screw-up” is not an “extraordinary circumstance” that would allow an injured driver to circumvent the time limits for producing expert witnesses and documents in an auto accident benefits arbitration, an Ontario court has ruled. Margaret Cyr and her lawyers, Sokoloff Lawyers, requested that the court overturn an arbitrator’s decision to exclude all […]
By David Gambrill | February 1, 2018
Canadians are not fully aware of their exposure to natural catastrophe risks, triggering a conversation at the C4 2018 conference in Ottawa about who is responsible for shouldering the heavy load of mounting disaster recovery costs. Organized by Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ), the 2018 C4 conference brings together researchers, government representatives, risk managers, […]
When a motorist is charged with impaired driving, the Crown attorney should not automatically have to gather and turn over to the defendant all maintenance records on the breathalyzer that was used in the case, the Ontario government suggests. The Ontario attorney general’s department has intervener status in an appeal to the Supreme Court of […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 31, 2018
The Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) seems to have extended the categories of individuals who are found to be professional providers for the purposes of attendant care, Philippa Samworth, partner at Dutton Brock LLP, said on Tuesday. Speaking at the Ontario Insurance Adjusters Association’s (OIAA) 2018 Claims Conference in Toronto, Samworth discussed a case focusing […]
By Jason Contant | January 31, 2018
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – Lawmakers in Fort McMurray have approved a plan to help prevent destructive wildfires such as the one that ravaged the community in 2016. The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo council says the five-year mitigation strategy includes a more robust fire prevention program. The plan calls for more tree and brush clearing […]
By The Canadian Press | January 31, 2018
The Insurance Act is just one act to consider among all the other factors when dealing with the two-year limitation period in statutory accident benefits disputes, the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) has found. “So that’s frightening,” Philippa Samworth, a partner at Dutton Brock LLP, said Tuesday during a presentation at the Ontario Insurance Adjusters […]
By Jason Contant | January 30, 2018
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