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Contracting out of the Limitations Act the Ontario Court of Appeal provides guidance

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 10 2013

When will a contractual provision purporting to shorten a statutory limitation period be effective? The Ontario Court of Appeal addressed this issue

Information-gathering and tax audits by a revenue authority could there be an ulterior purpose?

  • DLA Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal's (FCA) recent judgment in MNR v RBC Life Insurance Co, 2013 FCA 50 (decided on 21 February 2013) condemned the

Saskatchewan Court sets new high-water mark for punitive damages against insurers

  • Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 13 2013

When Luciano Branco was denied benefits from both his workers' compensation and long-term disability insurers in connection with an injury that left

Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Boyce v. Cooperators General Insurance Company

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 9 2013

Attached below is a link to yesterday's Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Boyce v. Cooperators General Insurance Company which is the first

The insurer's duty to defend and indemnify: a new judgment of the Québec Court of Appeal

  • Lavery de Billy LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 20 2013

On March 1, 2013, the Court of Appeal rendered a judgment on the insurer's duty to defend and indemnify the insured in the area of commercial general

Court of Appeal skunks late property loss claims

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The Court of Appeal has allowed an insurer's appeal asserting the one-year limitation period in an all-risk property policy. The decision highlights

Extreme sports, extreme consequences

  • Robinson Sheppard Shapiro
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 28 2010

Dramatic accidents having catastrophic consequences for the victims often result in legal proceedings with consequences just as catastrophic for the parties involved

This week at the SCC (06052013)

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 6 2013

This week the Supreme Court of Canada granted a leave application in the following case of interest to Canadian businesses and professions. In

Penny unwise and pound foolish: punitive damage awards

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 19 2013

The Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan has sent a strong message to insurance companies in the recent Branco v American Home Assurance Co

$4.5 million in punitive damages awarded against disability insurers

  • Harris & Company
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 17 2013

A recent decision of the Saskatchewan Queen's Bench awarded $4.5 million in punitive damages to a disabled employee after a 10-year legal battle with