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Insurance Companies Act amendments delayed to January 1 , 2010
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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- Canada
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- February 26 2008
An Act to amend the law governing financial institutions and to provide for related and consequential matters, came into force, for the most part, on April 20
Armed guards on ships to fight pirates
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- Canada
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- November 17 2011
Guidance from the IMO on how to hire guards to protect a ship from pirates
Inherent vice vs. peril of the seas
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- United Kingdom
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- July 25 2012
Marine insurers (and courts) must sometimes base their decisions on how a vessel lost insured cargo at sea
Gone fishin’
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- Canada
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- August 29 2012
The Federal Court of Appeal decision in Peracomo Inc. v. Société Telus Communications (June 29, 2012) provided Canadian courts with the first opportunity to consider the application of Article 4 of the Convention on the Limitation of Maritime Claims 1976, concerning the loss of the right to limit liability because of the defendants’ “personal act or omission, committed with the intent to cause such loss, or recklessly and with knowledge that such loss would probably result.”
Federal Court enjoins Ontario proceedings in limitation action
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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- Canada
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- November 17 2011
A loading catastrophe raises considerable questions in terms of governing legislation, jurisdiction, and potential liability limitations
Is a charterparty a contract for carriage of goods by water?
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- November 17 2011
Companhia Siderurgica Paulista (COSIPA), BLG’s client, concluded a Gencon-form voyage charterparty with Fednav (disponent owner of the defendant vessel), for the carriage of steel coils from Brazil to the U.S.A. and Canada
Newfoundland statute no bar to lawsuits by fishermen’s widows
- Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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- Canada, USA
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- November 17 2011
A 2011 case involving wrongful death compensation for deceased fisheries workers in Atlantic Canada revealed an interesting conflict in governing legislation that should be noted by the maritime industry
Cable-cutting “a very stupid thing”
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- Canada
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- November 17 2011
Marine Insurers may wish to take note of the conditions under which a crab fisherman was found liable, and uninsured, for an act of property damage
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