A class-action lawsuit arising from last year’s Equifax cyber breach is proceeding in Ontario on the basis of a new invasion-of-privacy tort that has caught the eye of Canada’s property and casualty insurers because it allows courts to award damages…
A claim for interference with homemaking capability “must be scrutinized carefully” in an auto personal injury lawsuit, a British Columbia judge suggested in a recent ruling that cites an earlier Court of Appeal for Ontario ruling. In a ruling released…
A plaintiff could file a pollution lawsuit in Alberta “well past” the end of the limitation period, even if a hazardous substance was released more than 50 years ago, a lawyer warned in a recent blog post. Alberta’s Environmental Protection…
TOKYO – A court Friday held Japan’s government and a utility liable for neglecting tsunami safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear plant and ordered them to pay more money to dozens out of the thousands of people who fled radiation…
MONTREAL – Lawyers on behalf of motorists left stranded in their cars on a highway after Tuesday’s snowstorm applied on Thursday for a class action lawsuit against the Quebec government and City of Montreal. Plaintiffs are seeking $2,000 for each…
A pedestrian who was hit by a car is not able to sue the City of Kitchener and the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario because the Ontario Limitations Act bars the plaintiff from adding the municipalities as defendants to an…
The Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to announce Thursday whether it will hear an appeal over the question of whether the restriction, in a provincial workers’ compensation plan against suing employers, also applies to federal workers subject to the…
WASHINGTON – The United States Supreme Court on Monday rejected challenges to the estimated $1 billion plan by the NFL to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by former players, clearing the way for payouts to begin to those who…
Canada has no authoritative legal decision on parental waivers, which has created uncertainty over whether or not a properly drafted and duly executed waiver will serve as a complete bar to a claim. A New Brunswick case offers alternatives that might be employed until that gap in the law is filled, but businesses and insurers alike must factor into their liability risk analysis that parental waivers are unlikely to be enforceable.
MONTREAL – Canadian Pacific Railway is directly responsible for damages caused when a runaway train carrying crude oil derailed in 2013 in Lac-Mégantic, according to new allegations recently filed in court by the Quebec government. The railroad was responsible for…
Shareholders alleging that an offeror made a misrepresentation in a take-over bid circular can – in Ontario – sue both the offeror and the offeror’s directors and signatories personally, rather than having to choose to sue one or the other,…
A lawsuit filed by an employee terminated without cause and given two weeks’ termination pay plus 12 weeks’ salary in lieu of notice could reach the Supreme Court of Canada. Court records indicate that Lesley Cabott started working, as a…