The Ontario Court of Appeal just released its decision in Tondat v Hudson’s Bay Company et al. The facts of the case are ones we typically see in Occupiers cases. The plaintiff, Sandra Tondat, slipped and fell when entering The Hudson’s Bay Company (“The Bay”) and...
As Ontario’s auto insurance industry was waiting anxiously, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released an interesting decision on priority dispute notices to claimants. In Dominion v. Unifund, an accident benefits claimant was not notified of the priority dispute...
On March 18, 2018, a vehicle operating in a “self-driving mode” (owned by Uber) struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona, as she was crossing the street. This was the first documented time that an individual was killed by a self-driving vehicle. The vehicle in...
The Court of Appeal has upheld a jury’s award of $225,000 in general damages for pain and suffering in a case involving a plaintiff who suffered fractures to the tibia and talus bone as a result of a motor vehicle accident. The plaintiff was 18 at the time of the...
In the March 8, 2018 decision of Lipovetsky v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, the plaintiff brought a motion to the Superior Court of Justice for a more fulsome affidavit of documents from the defendant insurer. The most interesting allegation in their motion...