The Ontario Court of Appeal has allowed Allstate’s appeal from the Divisional Court decision in Varriano v. Allstate Company of Canada. The claimant, Nunzo Varriano, was injured in a motor vehicle accident on September 30, 2015, and paid IRBs from October 7, 2015,...
In a rare challenge to exclude scientific evidence as unreliable in a civil case, Justice Bale found SPECT scans do not meet the reliability foundation test for novel scientific evidence, in the recent decision of Meadev. Hussein, 2021 ONSC 7850. According to the...
The plaintiffs in Karasik v. Yahoo Inc., a proposed class action, brought a motion for production of Yahoo’s database of its 16.9 million Canadian users prior to the certification motion. This class action stems from cyber attacks in 2013 and 2014 by Federal Secret...
The Ontario Court of Appeal has upheld Justice Ramsay’s determination that the LAT has exclusive jurisdiction at first instance over all claims in respect of accident benefits, including extra contractual claims such as bad faith conduct. By way of background, Ms....
In Kaplan v. Casino Rama, released May 7, 2019, Justice Belobaba dismissed the plaintiffs’ motion to certify a class action arising from the 2016 cyber-attack on Casino Rama. Background In November 2016 Casino Rama’s computer system was hacked and a variety of...
