Insurance
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March 03, 2025
No duty to inform: Ontario Court confirms no obligation to notify excluded drivers
When it comes to excluded driver endorsements, the Ontario Superior Court has made one thing clear: what you don’t know can still count against you. In its recent decision in Brown et al. v Paudash et al., 2024 ONSC 2960, the Superior Court confirmed that an excluded driver endorsement remains valid even if the driver was never notified of the exclusion.
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February 28, 2025
SCC rules Métis Nation’s pursuit of overlapping lawsuits against Saskatchewan not abuse of process
The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed 9-0 that a legal challenge by the Métis Nation–Saskatchewan to provincial permits that allow a company to explore for uranium on land to which the Métis claim Aboriginal title in Saskatchewan is not an abuse of process and may go ahead, notwithstanding that the Métis have also launched other lawsuits involving similar issues against the province.
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February 27, 2025
Field Law welcomes five partners, two counsel
Lee Carter, Carolyn Paterson, Pat Robinson and Matt Vernon, based in Calgary, and Paul Kolida, in Edmonton, have been promoted to the position of partners while Don Blackett and Karen Wiwchar named counsel at Field Law., according to an announcement on the firm’s website.
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February 27, 2025
Settlement versus trial: Making an informed decision
Personal injury claims arise when an individual suffers harm due to another party’s negligence, recklessness or intentional misconduct. These claims often involve physical, emotional and financial distress for the injured party.
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February 26, 2025
Hosel rockets: When sport becomes tort | Michael Cochrane
The United Kingdom’s St. Augustine’s Links describes itself as Kent’s most welcoming golf course. I’m not sure Mr. Castle felt that way as he drove his taxi alongside the 13th hole in 1922, especially when an errant golf ball smashed through his windshield, blinding him in one eye. Was the ball one of the then popular $12 a dozen “C” Colonel’s advertised as “leaves the club with a click and a delightful feeling”? We know not. What we do know is that, while the course felt bad, they explained those types of errant shots happened all the time, especially — ahem — on the 13th hole. Castle sued.
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February 26, 2025
Higher-cost medicines drove 14.1 per cent spike in patented drug prices: Report
The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board has published its latest report, finding that “drug costs jumped by 14.1 per cent in 2023, rebounding from three years of moderate increases of four to five per cent during the pandemic.”
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February 26, 2025
Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association calls for key auto insurance changes amid election clamour
In the run-up to Ontario’s Feb. 27 election this week, the organization that represents more than 1,300 legal professionals in the personal injury sector has been campaigning to raise awareness about issues with the province’s auto insurance system that it argues are unfair to accident victims and the personal injury bar.
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February 26, 2025
SCC halts use of its ‘X’ account ‘for now,’ citing ‘strategic priorities and resource allocation’
In a move that has sparked controversy in Canada and beyond, the Supreme Court of Canada tells Law360 Canada that “for now” it will no longer use its official account on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, a high-profile billionaire associate of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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February 26, 2025
Women & 2SLGBTQI+ applicants came out ahead as ‘highly recommended’ for federal benches in 2023-2024
Asserting his new administration is “ending illegal discrimination and restoring merit-based opportunity,” U.S. President Donald Trump recently issued controversial executive orders banning diversity, equity and inclusion policies and hiring at the federal level in America. But in Canada, the most recent demographic statistics on federal judicial appointments and the professional competence and character assessments made by the Trudeau government’s non-partisan judicial advisory committees (JACs) indicate that diversity has gone hand in hand with “merit.”
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February 25, 2025
Major auto insurers face proposed class action over alleged use of flawed valuation reports
Intact Insurance, Aviva General Insurance and a number of other major automobile insurers are facing a proposed class action over their alleged use of valuation reports containing arbitrary and unlawful charges, which lowered vehicle valuations and reduced payouts for total loss accident claims.