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A.K. v. Allstate Insurance, 2020 CanLII 14418 (ON LAT)

In this case, the Applicant was the seat-belted driver of a vehicle that struck a median, spun out of control, struck another vehicle and came to rest after hitting the guardrail in July, 2010. The Applicant submitted an application for catastrophic determination, which was denied by the insurer…

Z.K. v. Allstate Insurance Company Canada, 2020 CanLII 106429 (ON LAT)

In this case that went before the Licence Appeal Tribunal (“LAT”) following a seven-day hearing held in-person over the months of October and December 2019, the LAT determined that the Applicant had sustained a Catastrophic Impairment as a result of his motor vehicle accident of June 6, 2014…

K.K. vs. Aviva General Insurance, 2020 ONLAT 18-012611/AABS

In this case, the insurer was ordered to pay special award for unreasonably held or delayed payment of IRBs after ignoring severity of psychological impairments and reports of its own assessors…

K.H. v. Aviva Insurance Company, 2020 ONTLAT 19-013941/AABS

In this case, Aviva subjected to pay order for unreasonably withheld or delayed payments for having “stubbornly maintained its denial and forced a hearing where it, for the first time post-accident, raised causation issues”…

Pandemic Price Gouging in The Car Insurance Industry

New data reveals that car accidents in Ontario have gone down by more than 56% since Ontario’s State of Emergency was declared on March 17, 2020. How have car insurance companies responded? By increasing Ontarians’ premiums by an average of $30 per policy since the pandemic began.

Saadi v. Silva, 2020 ONSC 6700 (CanLII)

In this case, after a series of early successes by Plaintiffs seeking to strike the jury, the recent decision of Justice Kimmel in Saadi v. Silva, is another in a growing list of cases where such requests have been denied.