Blouin Dunn LLP hosted an Open House on Nov. 3, 2011 to showcase their new office at 199 Bay Street (Suite 4805, Commerce Court) in Toronto. More than 150 attended and enjoyed great food, drinks, music and the magnificent view…
The 56th Annual Black Tie Dinner of the Toronto Insurance Conference (TIC) was held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto on Nov. 10. Guest speaker was Stephen Lewis, one of the world’s most influential speakers on human rights, social…
Friends of Hughes Amys LLP gathered at the Irish Embassy in Toronto for the firm’s annual Holiday Cocktail Party on Nov. 30. The event included a photo booth, in which people could have their pictures taken wearing accessories such as…
Ontario’s Court of Appeal finds that a single policy of commercial insurance can contain separate notice conditions applicable to separate areas of coverage.
Insurers aren’t the only targets in fraudulent health care claims, health care practitioners are also being targeted, warned the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) in a bulletin.FSCO describes a common scenario in which clinic owners/operators and others in the…
A vast majority (83%) of Canadian executives said fraud prevention and detection is a priority for their organizations, but only 9% of those surveyed said they have business analytics software designed to help detect fraud running all the time, according…
The Law Society of B.C. (LSBC) has broadened the scope of lawyers’ professional indemnity coverage to respond to trust fund shortfalls resulting from various forms of “bad cheque” scams.Typically, the scams involve between $200,000 and $350,000, with one matrimonial scam…
The Financial Securities Commission of Ontario (FSCO) has introduced two expedited processes in mediation in an attempt to ease the backlog that has formed. In its December 2011 newsletter, FSCO describes the two new processes: •Consent failures (the option to…
Alberta’s Court of Appeal has allowed a plaintiff to sue his own insurer with respect to an underinsured motorist case more than 10 years after the accident occurred, ruling that a contractual clause in the plaintiff’s policy endorsement trumped a…
The RCMP has linked a data breach at the ICBC with a series of arsons and shootings since September 2011 that have targeted approximately 13 people linked to the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC).No one has been physically harmed…
Photos posted to a plaintiff’s Facebook and MySpace pages are relevant to litigation surrounding his motor vehicle accident injuries, but Facebook status updates and postings to other people’s walls do not necessarily meet the relevance test, the Ontario Superior Court…
The Manitoba Public Utilities Board (PUB) has ordered Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) to reduce its overall basic premiums and fees by 8%.PUB further approved MPI’s application for enhanced fleet rebates and increased drivers’ premiums for those at the top of…