Claims
By asking if a business client has a human resources department, a broker can quickly find out about that client’s liability exposure. If a client’s business has an HR person or a legal advisor, that “tends to really decrease liability for individual corporations and individual people,” Toronto employment lawyer Andrew Monkhouse said in an interview. […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 30, 2018
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Overcoming our fear of robots will allow our best people to focus on the customer at the time of claim, when they need us most.
By Monica Kuzyk Vice President, Claims, Curo Claims Services | January 28, 2018
You are providing risk advice to a company accused of wrongdoing. What do you think about your client offering voluntary gift cards as a strategy to reduce liability? The question is currently before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in David v. Loblaw, which has not only drawn attention from the public, but also from […]
By David Gambrill | January 26, 2018
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A home inspector was successfully sued for more than $13,000 in British Columbia for not advising buyers of a leaking Chilliwack home to fix foundation cracks. In a ruling released Monday, Provincial Court of British Columbia Justice Kenneth Skilnick ruled that Mr. Home Inspector Ltd., through its agent Lee Fearnley Stonegate Home Inspections Ltd., failed […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 25, 2018
FOND DU LAC, Sask. – Survivors of a plane crash in a remote community in northern Saskatchewan have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the airline was negligent. The claim against West Wind Aviation and Athabasca Basin Development, the airline’s majority shareholder, alleges that their acts or omissions harmed those on the plane. The plaintiffs include […]
By The Canadian Press | January 25, 2018
Canada is starting to create a culture of climate resilience, particularly around overland flood risk, says the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), an association of Canada’s home, auto and business insurers. “We’re encouraged and fairly optimistic that the wheels are in motion,” IBC’s vice president of federal affairs Craig Stewart told Canadian Underwriter Tuesday. “It’s […]
By David Gambrill | January 25, 2018
A recent Ontario court ruling against a coffee shop serves as a warning to defendants that individual employees can be named personally in personal injury lawsuits against corporations. “There is no general rule in Canada that an employee acting in the course of her employment cannot be sued personally for breaching a duty of care […]
By Greg Meckbach | January 24, 2018
Canadian property insurers could face reinsurance rate hikes this June as an indirect result of recent California wildfires and North Atlantic hurricanes, a ratings firm analyst predicts, echoing the opinions of several commentators in the Canadian property and casualty (P&C) industry. But it remains unclear what the nature of the rate adjustments may be. The […]
Would you be prepared to wait almost two decades to defend your insured policyholder in an uncomplicated auto liability case? One insurer stuck it out for 18 years until finally, on Jan. 19, 2018, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia dismissed the auto insurance tort claim that is remarkable for its lack of legal activity […]
By David Gambrill | January 22, 2018
December 2017 saw the lowest number of impaired driving offences reported that month in the four years since Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) began doing its monthly traffic safety spotlights, even with increased enforcement. “Overall, we think attitudes are changing in Saskatchewan,” Tyler McMurchy, SGI’s manager of media relations, told Canadian Underwriter Monday. “Impaired driving isn’t […]
By Jason Contant | January 22, 2018
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