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Insurers winning court battles to enforce pandemic BI arbitration

April 4, 2022 by David Gambrill

Quebec insurers with arbitration clauses written into their business interruption policies are winning battles to have pandemic BI class action suits go through arbitration rather than through the courts. Both of law firm Clyde & Co.’s Top 2 cases of

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Arbitration glitch sidetracks $147-million Fort Mac reinsurance dispute

March 21, 2018 by David Gambrill

A $147-million reinsurance dispute involving Fort McMurray wildfire claims got off to a rocky start because the insurer and its reinsurers could not initially agree on the method of arbitration. At the heart of the matter was a broad reference

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Arbitration filing deadlines trump law clerk “screw-up,” Ontario court rules

January 31, 2018 by David Gambrill

A law clerk “screw-up” is not an “extraordinary circumstance” that would allow an injured driver to circumvent the time limits for producing expert witnesses and documents in an auto accident benefits arbitration, an Ontario court has ruled. Margaret Cyr and

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BIP Talk aims to let brokers ‘better understand’ underlying problems with Ontario auto insurance: Forgeron

August 25, 2017 Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

More than four months after the release of David Marshall’s report on auto insurance, Insurance Bureau of Canada’s president and chief executive officer is hoping Ontario’s brokers will “add their voice” to calls from the industry to “fundamentally overhaul” auto

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New Ontario financial authority should monitor auto insurers with ‘unusual number’ of LAT appeals: Marshall

April 12, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Neither the behaviour of personal injury lawyers nor “excess profits” of insurers are to blame for high auto premiums in Ontario, but the government should consider restricting lawyers’ contingency fees, a special advisor to the provincial government suggested in a

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Intact, Allstate disagree on whether accident victims “principally dependent” on policyholder

February 13, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal over an arbitration ruling in an auto accident benefits priority dispute, where insurers disagreed on whether a claimant was “principally dependent” on the owner of a vehicle. Court records indicate

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Court challenge to Ontario auto dispute resolution system ‘scheduled to proceed’ to hearing Feb. 13

November 4, 2016 Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

A constitutional challenge to Ontario’s auto accident benefits dispute resolution system is scheduled for a three-day hearing next February, but the retired judge who recommended that AB disputes go before a public sector administrative tribunal suggested Wednesday that it would

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New Ontario auto dispute resolution system could cause ‘a lot more claims against insurance brokers,’ personal injury lawyer predicts

November 3, 2016 Greg Meckbach, Associate Editor

Recent reforms to Ontario auto insurance, including the transfer of accident benefits dispute arbitration to the licence appeal tribunal (LAT), has some personal injury lawyers warning of lawsuits against brokers who fail to advise clients accordingly. “We are trying to

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Reinsurance disputes and CBI exposures possible after North American wildfires and Louisiana floods: CMS lawyer

September 2, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

A year of fire and floods in North America could lead to a repeat of 2007, when reinsurance disputes emerged over causation issues, a lawyer with global law firm CMS said on Friday. Alex Denslow, a partner with the Insurance

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LAT Have Mercy

May 1, 2016 Willie Handler, Consultant, Willie Handler & Associates

As of April 1, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario stopped accepting applications for mediation and arbitration of auto accident benefits insurance claims disputes. That responsibility now rests with the Licence Appeal Tribunal.