Incorporating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) successfully into the workplace has to come from a genuine desire to improve a workplace culture rather than as a way to check boxes, speakers said in a RIMS Canada Conference panel discussion. “Often…
Guaranteed replacement cost (GRC) coverage for rebuilding a flooded home in an area regulated by a conservation authority includes the increased regulatory compliance costs required for the rebuild, Ontario’s Superior Court has ruled in Emond v. Trillium Mutual Insurance Company.…
In what lawyers are calling a “solution in search of a problem,” Canada’s solvency regulator is seeking input from the Canadian property and casualty insurance industry on how to regulate business culture. “I feel like this culture conversation in Canada…
OTTAWA – Hockey Canada’s board chairs, past and present, will answer to the federal government today on the hockey body’s handling of alleged sexual assaults and how money was paid out in lawsuits. Former chair Michael Brind’Amour and interim chair…
Investors are increasingly pursuing companies for ‘greenwashing,’ referring to company directors who misrepresent their climate credentials or fail to act in accordance with their stated climate goals, says a financial services executive at Marsh Canada. Commercial brokers can help their…
REGINA – The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has set aside a temporary injunction that halted a lawsuit filed by some parents of those who died in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured when…
Canada’s dreaded amber light: it’s the source of numerous intersection crashes, resulting in untold insurance claims. If you are dispensing driver safety tips to clients, be sure to tell your insureds to watch out when turning left against yellow caution…
In a commercial hull and machinery insurance policy containing cross-indemnities, a promise to insure by one party trumps the indemnity by the other unless the contract clearly states otherwise, B.C.’s Supreme Court has ruled in a case involving two separate…
A B.C. commercial fishing operation must face a jury in its insurance claim against Intact Insurance and the brokerage Harlock Murray Underwriting Ltd., B.C.’s Supreme Court has ruled. The court was not convinced the claim of Arctic Pearl Fishing Ltd.,…
Aviva Canada successfully appealed a tribunal decision that called for the insurer to pay full auto insurance income replacement benefits (IRB), with no deduction, on top of the sickness benefits she was already receiving under the Employment Insurance Act (EIA).…
Ontario’s Superior Court has rejected two claims made by a clothes store operator against RSA for a total of $127,000 in lost inventory due to water damage, because the retailer could not prove the value of the lost merchandise. In…
Starr Insurance & Reinsurance Limited does not have to defend its insured in a Quebec construction case, because its builders’ risk policy is essentially a property policy, not a liability policy, Quebec’s Superior Court has ruled. In construction, a builders’…