This case serves as a good reminder of the law surrounding the enforceability of waivers. The Plaintiff had attended the Defendant indoor trampoline park. While attempting to land a backflip on a trampoline, he landed on his head and suffered serious injuries including a C7 vertebra fracture that required surgery.
Case Summaries Category Archives
Travelers Insurance Company of Canada v. CAA Insurance Company 2020 ONCA 382
In a unanimous decision, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that mere presence of an office in Ontario does not itself make Ontario’s Insurance Act the governing legislation for all auto insurance policies that an insurer underwrites…
N.P. v Western Assurance Company, 2020 ONLAT 19-011629/AABS & 19-012841/AABS
In this case, the Respondent insurer, Western Assurance Company, denied a treatment and assessment plan for an in-home re-assessment of attendant care benefits and housekeeping benefits. The Adjudicator found in favour of the Applicant…
OZ Merchandising Inc. v. Canadian Professional Soccer League Inc., 2019 ONSC 3882
In this case, Justice Bell struck the jury after seven weeks of trial, and the plaintiff’s counsel’s closing address to the jury…
Louis v. Poitras, 2020 ONSC 5301
The Plaintiffs brought a motion to strike the jury notice after their ten-week trial was adjourned indefinitely as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
NM v The Guarantee Company of North America
This reconsideration decision helps shed some more light on the level of behaviour that will attract costs at the Licence Appeal Tribunal (“LAT”).