A decision has been released by the Licence Appeal Tribunal, further narrowing the definition of an accident…
Racey v. The Co-operators General Insurance Company, 2022 CANLII 2764 (ON LAT)
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Cheung v. Samra, 2022 ONCA 195
In this case, the plaintiff was diagnosed with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) before birth, and her condition continued to worsen in the weeks prior to her delivery. While she was not suffering notable impairments when she was discharged, two months later she was revealed to have suffered severe brain damage…
K.Y. v. Aviva Insurance Company, 2022 ONLAT 19-001720/AABS
Following a 6-day video-conference hearing, Adjudicator Lake ruled that the Applicant was entitled to payment of income replacement benefits in the amount of $400.00 per week from July 17, 2019 to date and ongoing, plus interest in accordance with s. 51 of the SABS…
Sabanadze v. Joseph, 2021 ONSC 6744 (CanLII)
In this case, the Plaintiffs are individuals who were injured after a Greyhound bus they were riding in as passengers ploughed into the rear of a tanker truck and became entangled in a multi-vehicle collision on highway 417, in the Province of Ontario, on January 27, 2014. The litigation involved as much as twenty-six (26) defendants at one time.
Uncovering the Truth, Hidden Documents and Buried Children: Residential School Survivors and Their Families Deserve Better
There will never be enough compensation to make whole Residential School Survivors or their families, but their experiences cannot be in vain. That requires getting at the truth which continues to rear its ugly presence, even more than 13 years after the Government of Canada formally apologized in 2008. Despite that apology, the wounds of the past continue to be reopened both for residential school survivors and their families…
Ahmed v. Aviva Insurance Company
In the recent case of Ahmed v. Aviva Insurance Company, Aviva Insurance Company proceeded with a motion to dismiss an application as abandoned, despite previous counsel’s death and the applicant’s personal barriers, and was found by Vice Chair Maedel to have acted in bad faith. In the result, the motion was dismissed and Aviva was ordered to pay costs to the applicant…
