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Frank Cowan Company, a provider of Canadian municipal, health care, education and community service insurance solutions, has introduced a new insurance program for health care organizations and professionals called Health & Wellness. “We understand that a one-size-fits-all policy is of little use to health care professionals,” says Michael Lough, vice president of programs at Frank […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 21, 2012
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The B.C. Coroners Service has just completed a detailed study of fatal motor vehicle crashes in the Interior of the province, which shows a high proportion of those who died were not wearing seatbelts. “Although numerous studies by the RCMP and Transport Canada show that at least 90% of British Columbians wear their seatbelts, the […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 17, 2012
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B.C.’s privacy commissioner says the Insurance Corporation of B.C. (ICBC) should not have offered up its facial recognition technology last year to help police identify participants in the June 2011 Stanley Cup riots. “With respect to ICBC’s offer to assist police in their investigation of the Vancouver riot, I determined that the change in use […]
The Magnitude-9 Honshu earthquake that struck Japan on Mar. 11, 2011 has transferred stress to neighboring faults underlying Kanto Plain, a 17,000-square-kilomtre area that includes Tokyo and five other large prefectures, and Sagami Trough, where a Magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck in 1923, according to new research published by Catastrophe modeler AIR Worldwide. “AIR’s analysis indicates […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 16, 2012
Toronto and Niagara Regional Police have laid more than 500 charges against five men in connection with an investigation of an alleged chop shop operation. The charges follow a joint forces investigation first launched in 2009 involving the Toronto Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police, Niagara Regional Police Service and the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario […]
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has denied a motion to have the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) added as a defendant in a case in which the defendant claims a highway had insufficient signage, resulting in an accident. In Boychev v. Alves, Fabio Alves rear-ended a vehicle driven by Venelina Karagyozova-Boycheva as she […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 14, 2012
Despite a serious mediation case backlog in Ontario, claimants may nonetheless proceed with legal actions against insurers if mediations are not completed within 60 days of an application for mediation being filed with the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO), the Ontario Superior Court has ruled.Section 19.1 of the province’s Dispute Resolution Practice Code says […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 10, 2012
The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia has found the limitation period for a third party indemnity action in the province starts to run at the same time as a plaintiff’s cause of action against the proposed third party accrues.In doing so, the lower court deviated from caselaw established in the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal. […]
By Canadian Underwriter | February 9, 2012
The application of Ontario’s new Minor Injury Guideline (MIG), which defines the scope of minor injuries sustained in vehicle collisions, is “crazy right now,” according to Kadey B.J. Schultz, partner with Hughes Amys LLP. In some instances, she said, the MIG protocol is being applied to files that include injuries such as fractures, complete tears […]
A judicial ruling in Ontario on the Minor Injury Guideline (MIG), introduced by the province in 2010 and which defines the scope of a minor injury, likely won’t happen before 2014 or even 2015, according to Kadey B.J. Schultz, partner with Hughes Amys LLP. This is due to a backlog that exists at the Financial […]
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