By a 2-1 margin, the Court of Appeal allowed an appeal by the plaintiffs and imposed liability on one of the defendants for a catastrophic swimming pool accident that had left a young girl a quadriplegic. In reaching its decision,…
Good news for auto insurers today from the Supreme Court. The insurers’ appeals in Citadel General Assurance Co. v. Vytlingam and Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. v. Herbison were successful. Both cases turned on the interpretation of the phrase, “arising directly or indirectly…
Some very good news for the plaintiff’s bar today, from the Court of Appeal: insurers’ offers to settle in MVA cases should contain “cushions” against the statutory deductibles. In Rider et al. v. Dydyk, the Court (Justices Jurianz, MacPherson and…
In a case that has already received a lot of attention from the insurance industry, the Court of Appeal held in Clarendon National Insurance et al. v. Candow that where it applies, s. 263 of the Insurance Act bars all tort…
In Kitchenham v. AXA Insurance Canada, the Divisional Court has considered the “deemed undertaking” rule (Rule 30.1.01) in the context of personal injury litigation. The decision of the Court was written by Associate Chief Justice Douglas Cunningham, concurred in by…
Hummingbird v. Mustafa et al. involved some interesting issues in the evolving law of “e-discovery”. The defendants asked the court to order production of the hard drive of a computer that the defendant Mustafa had used while in the employ…
In Vointsev v. Irina International Tours Limited, Justice Julie Alexandra Thorburn had to deal with an interesting practice point. The plaintiff had claimed damages resulting from having fallen while on a tour of Toronto with the defendant, Irina International Tours…
As if insurers needed more encouragement to tighten their procedures, the Court of Appeal today ordered Lombard Insurance to defend an action arising out of use of a car by an “excluded driver” because the insurer had not delivered a…
In McArdle v. Bugler, the Court of Appeal today held that a passenger in an uninsured vehicle, which had collided with another vehicle, was entitled to uninsured motorist insurance coverage applying to the second car. It held that the narrow…
The Ontario Court of Appeal today released a decision dealing with apportionment of fault in tort. In Misko v. John Doe, a unanimous court (Justices Marc Rosenberg, wrote the reasons that were concurred in by Justices Eleanor Cronk and Eileen…