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A class action lawsuit for breach of privacy against British Columbia’s government auto insurer, arising from an employee’s access of clients’ personal information, can proceed, but the province’s appeal court does not recognize a common law tort of invasion of privacy. In a decision released Monday, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court […]
By Canadian Underwriter | November 18, 2015
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VANCOUVER – A vigorous cold front swept across southern British Columbia on Tuesday, bringing gale-force winds that cut power to tens of thousands of BC Hydro customers. The utility announced Tuesday night that strong wind gusts during the dinner hour caused power outages that affected more than 110,000 customers in the Lower Mainland. Seventy-five-thousand customers […]
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Cyberattacks on automobiles will increase sharply in 2016 due to the rapid increase in connected automobile hardware built without foundational security principles, suggests the McAfee Labs 2016 Threats Predictions report released earlier this week. The report said that even cars need “defense in depth, with layers of protection to reduce the risk and impact of […]
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MONTREAL – The owner of one of Canada’s largest oil refineries hopes a first ministers’ meeting later this month will begin to develop a national energy strategy to replace what he sees as a piecemeal focus on individual projects like Keystone XL and Energy East. “We have to have a road map here nationally so […]
By Canadian Underwriter | November 17, 2015
DENVER – A powerful wintery storm dumped heavy snow on parts of Colorado on Tuesday while bringing the threat of tornadoes to millions in Arkansas and Texas, where a handful of damaging twisters had plowed through that state’s Panhandle the day before. Much of Interstate 70, Colorado’s main east-west highway, was closed because of blizzard […]
A British Columbia nurse acquitted two years ago of two counts of dangerous driving causing death faces a new trial because the original trial judge erred, in applying a “subjective standard,” when considering whether three different acts on the part of the motorist established the mens rea of the criminal offence, the Supreme Court of […]
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A “mature and strong” El Niño event, which is contributing to extreme weather patterns, is expected to strengthen further by the end of the year, according to the latest update from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a specialized agency of the United Nations. The WMO said in a statement on Monday that peak three-month average […]
The City of Windsor in Ontario is recommending that its city council obtain an external consultant to review the possibility of allowing services like Uber to operate legally in the city. A statement from the city that was before council on Monday recommended that council “authorize administration to issue a Request for Proposal to provide […]
By Canadian Underwriter | November 16, 2015
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An Alberta law that allows for driving prohibitions of uninsured motorists who fail to repay the Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Program – and are discharged from bankruptcy – is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Section 102 of the Alberta Traffic Safety Act allows the province to disqualify a person from driving in […]
EDMONTON – Calgary and Edmonton are both in the midst of dealing with how to regulate private for-hire vehicle services. The Court of Queen’s Bench has agreed to hear Calgary’s application for an injunction to temporarily stop drivers of private for-hire vehicles who use the Uber app offering rides for a fee. The city wants […]
By The Canadian Press | November 16, 2015
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