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Real estate title fraud and title insurance in Ontario: impact of recent Ontario changes

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 19 2007

Over the past few years Ontario has been hit by a wave of fraudulent real estate transactions involving identity fraud people either forging or fraudulently conveying or charging properties, using the identity of the registered owner

The importance of title insurance

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • October 20 2009

With the economic slowdown reducing real estate values, lawyers for purchasers and vendors of real property are spending more time on the basics

Real estate title fraud and insurance: recent Ontario changes

  • McMillan LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 16 2007

Over the past few years Ontario has been hit by a wave of fraudulent real estate transactions involving identity fraud; that is, people either forging or fraudulently conveying or mortgaging properties using the identity of the registered owner

Insurer precluded from denying coverage under "settlement" exclusion in an all-risks policy

  • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 27 2009

The 2008 decision of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench in Engel Estate v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada, 2008 ABQB 645 ("Engel Estate") is an interesting discussion of both U.S. and Canadian case law on "All Risks" property coverage

Homeowners' insurance: is the ground insured property?

  • Robinson Sheppard Shapiro
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 15 2009

On October 29, 2009, the Honorable Justice Micheline Sasseville of the Court of Quebec, in the case Valade c. Capitale (La), assurances générales inc., ordered an insurer to reimburse its insured for the cost of decontaminating the ground under the insured’s home pursuant to a homeowner’s insurance policy

Homeowners liable to contractor in construction lien proceedings but not indemnified by their property insurer for additional costs under the guaranteed replacement cost endorsement of their policy

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
  • -
  • May 10 2010

In TGA General Contracting v. Cirillo (October 15, 2009), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice gave judgment to a contractor (“TGA”) in construction lien proceedings for unpaid work and materials and concurrently dismissed the homeowners’ claim against their property insurer (“Wawanesa”) for those amounts pursuant to the guaranteed replacement cost (“GRC”) endorsement of their homeowner’s policy following fire damage to their home

No claim

  • Robinson Sheppard Shapiro
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 25 2008

The law of divided co-ownership (commonly known as condominium) is relatively young

Insurance advice for owners and board

  • Miller Thomson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 12 2010

In my experience, the best advice you can give a condominium unit owner that is easy for him or her to follow has to do with insurance

Protecting your condominium against natural disasters

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 6 2012

Over the past week or so, many of us have seen or read about the damage that Hurricane Sandy has wrought on much of the Eastern United States

Newbigging v. M. Butler Insurance Brokers Ltd

  • Harper Grey LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • November 23 2012

No coverage for an insured whose property was vandalized while it was vacant due to a vacancy clause

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