It seems like you can get anything delivered these days: pizza, clothing, cosmetics, groceries, alcohol – the list is endless. Most people making these deliveries are using their personal vehicles. Yet how many people are informing their insurers of the business...
Does slipping on ice next to a vehicle come within the definition of accident under Ontario’s statutory accident benefits scheme? Ok Stop. Collaborate and, ummmmm …..read. The Divisional Court has weighed into the (Ice) Age-old debate of whether an incident was...
The Ontario Court of Appeal has found that an insurer does not have a duty to defend a privacy class action, or an associated third party claim stemming from the disclosure of an allegedly defamatory report authored by the Family and Children Services of Lanark...
In a recent decision, an Ontario court found that an insurer has a duty to defend a “software developer” in a U.S. action alleging copyright infringement. In the U.S. action, the insured was alleged to be the head of a group of hackers which sold subscriptions for...
The Ontario Court of Appeal has overturned a lower decision that found an insurer owed a duty to defend an insured in a sexual assault claim, under a commercial general liability policy. The Claim In Southside Muay Thai Academy Corp. v. Aviva, Raul Fontalvo was the...
This priority dispute/coverage case has an unusual set of facts. The claimant was involved in a single vehicle accident in Nunavut while working in Nunavut. The vehicle she was driving at the time was owned and insured in Nunavut. However, the claimant was from...
