Your client’s liability for negligent drone use is a gray area. Here’s what insurers should consider when assessing the civil liability of drone operators.
A recent Court of Appeal for Ontario ruling is “great news” for insurers of sports and recreations clients, such as ski resorts, paintball, and dirt biking, a lawyer told Canadian Underwriter Thursday. In a decision released March 28, the court…
If a mechanic is injured while repairing a truck, does that constitute the “use” of a motor vehicle? The question may be headed to the Supreme Court of Canada. At stake is whether commercial clients may in fact need liability…
Some landlords are refusing to rent residences to people who do not have tenant’s insurance and some are even trying to use lack of insurance as grounds to evict tenants. “A lot of landlords in this day and age are…
Is your client looking after someone’s home? Be careful: a man describing himself as a “voluntary house-sitter” is now a defendant in a lawsuit arising from a flooded home. The plaintiffs, Jiang Wei and Xiu Qing Hu, filed a lawsuit…
Intact has a duty to defend a lawsuit arising from a workplace injury under a commercial general liability policy, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled. Normally workplace injuries are covered under no-fault provincial workers compensation programs rather than by property…
Managing liability risk includes making workplaces free from harassment for not only employees, but also for non-employees, advises Darius Delon, an independent risk consultant based in Calgary. Lawsuits arising from harassment are one major emerging area of risk, said Delon,…
Insurance and traffic laws probably need to change when motorists start sharing the road with driverless cars, a speaker told claims specialists Tuesday. There are now vehicles on the roads with limited self-driving capabilities (as opposed to having no steering…
A trucking and excavation company in Nova Scotia is immune from tort liability because it was acting under orders from the local fire department in a botched attempt to demolish a burning building, a Nova Scotia court has ruled. The…
A B.C. woman has received a court award for $362,102 in damages after developing a debilitating neck pain following two minor fender benders that occurred three years apart. Even though the court reduced the award from what the injured driver…
By asking if a business client has a human resources department, a broker can quickly find out about that client’s liability exposure. If a client’s business has an HR person or a legal advisor, that “tends to really decrease liability…
Directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurers may breathe somewhat easier after a recent Supreme Court of Canada decision that appears to have put the final nail in the coffin of a shareholders’ class action lawsuit that carried the potential to stop…