In Furtado v. Lloyd’s Underwriters 2024 ONCA 579, the Ontario Court of Appeal determined whether a policy holder was allowed coverage for claims made pursuant to the company’s directors and officers policy. The applicant, Go-To Developments Holdings Inc. had a...
In its recently released decision in Brown et al. v Paudash et al., the Superior Court confirmed that an excluded driver endorsement is in effect even if the excluded driver never received notice of the exclusion. Key Facts: This case arose from a motor vehicle...
In April 2023, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal heard and dismissed with costs an insurer’s appeal in Wynward Insurance Group v. Smith Building and Development Ltd., 2023 SKCA 57, affirming the trial decision at 2021 SK QB 54. Facts Policyholder Smith Building and...
Further, to my previous blog on Workman Optometry Professional Corporation v. Certas Home and Auto Insurance, 2023 ONSC 3356, an appeal of the action was heard on June 12, 2024. In the Court of Appeal’s short decision they upheld the Superior Court decision. Superior...
In Gray v. Intact Insurance Company, the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal made clear that merely seeing or hearing an accident does not make one a participant in that accident. The case in question involved an incident that occurred on August 14, 2019. While the...
What does “living in the same household” mean? In Ferro v. Weiner, the late Enid Weiner owned a house on Lake Eugenia. From the late 1980s or early 1990s, it was Enid’s sole residence, before she moved to a nursing home in 2008 or 2009. Although she never resumed...
