In 2019, Mr. Butterfield attended a firearms store in Cambridge, when he experienced a psychotic episode related to his pre-existing schizophrenia. He fell under the deluded belief that the owner of the store had raped and murdered his female friend. He left the store...
The Plaintiffs, Yvonne Moelker, the Estate of Lawrence “Larry” Hamel, and Lawrence Hamel’s siblings, Paul, and Louis Hamel, brought an action against the driver and owner of an unidentified vehicle, Security National Insurance Company, and the Motor Vehicle Accident...
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...
Special thanks to SBA articling student Ethan Edwards for his invaluable research and assistance writing this blog. The Ontario Court of Appeal recently considered the traditional pleadings rule and found that the duty to defend cannot be ousted by use of premature...
Recently, the Ontario Court of Appeal considered an insurer’s duty to defend in the context of a specific project wrap up liability policy. The decision did not include any ground-breaking principles, but it clarified a few points that may be critical to insurers and...
Illinois is one of the few jurisdictions in the world that has a designated piece of legislation addressing the collection, storage, and use of biometric date – the Biometric Information Privacy Act. The purpose of the BIPA is to regulate businesses’ collection,...
