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H.C. v. SSQ Life Insurance Company Inc., 2024 ONSC 53 (CanLII)

In this long-term disability matter H.C., Justice Doyle ruled that the plaintiff was not required to produce the redacted notes and records of her long-time treating psychologist. The Court also granted the plaintiff’s cross-motion for anonymization of the parties’ names as well as a sealing order of the psychologist’s treating records. The case sets out the general principles on redactions of records as well as the Wigmore criteria, and that such redactions be allowed if the information is not relevant to the matter and there is no good reason to produce it.

Hassan v. Sun Life, 2023 ONSC 7280

On July 26, 2017, the plaintiff, a lawyer for Legal Aid Ontario, submitted a claim for long-term disability benefits (LTDs) to Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (Sun Life), alleging total disability as of April 18, 2017, due to left arm and shoulder pain, anxiety, depression and phantom limb pain. On September 26, 2017, the plaintiff received a letter from Sun Life advising her that her claim for LTDs had not been approved as she did not satisfy the definition of “total disability”.