There has been a lot of reporting over the past few days about the number of COVID-19 infections, and outbreaks, in long term care homes in Ontario and Quebec. This presents a serious problem to people living and working in those facilities, as the mortality rate for...
COVID-19 has and will pose a number of challenges for the insurance industry. It will have an effect on claims handlers, brokers, insureds and insurers. No one will be spared. Already we are seeing significant disruption to the industry in the U.S., with calls both at...
The tort of “intrusion upon seclusion”, first adopted in Ontario by the Court of Appeal in its much-discussed decision in Jones v. Tsighe, has been given new life, and perhaps additional significance, by a recent decision to certify a class action in Stewart v. Demme,...
The Personal Insurance has settled the class action commenced against it as a result of its use of credit scores in investigating accident benefit claims, by paying $2,250,000.00. The decision approving the settlement is interesting for its discussion of whether a...
Privacy breaches often result in a multiplicity of class actions, across a multiplicity of jurisdictions in Canada, both at the national and the provincial level. Often these actions are commenced by different firms, resulting in carriage fights in one or more...
