Insurance law – Costs – Special or increased costs – Double costs – Practice – Settlement of action – Formation and validity Park v. Donnelly, [2018] B.C.J. No. 260, 2018 BCSC 219, British Columbia Supreme Court, February 15, 2018, P.G. Voith J. Prior to trial on a motor vehicle accident claim, the third party insurer ...
Insurance law – Automobile insurance – Unidentified motorist – Limitation of actions – Running of limitation period – Discoverability – Practice – Parties to action – Adding a party Bhatt v. John Doe, [2018] O.J. No. 759, 2018 ONSC 950, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, February 9, 2018, Master B. McAfee The plaintiffs were passengers ...
Insurance law – Practice – Settlement of action Fairweather v. Davies, [2017] O.J. No. 6180, 2017 ONSC 7051, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, November 27, 2017, J.K. Trimble J. The infant plaintiffs suffered minor injuries in a motor vehicle accident. Their mother served as their litigation guardian. Each plaintiff was to receive $12,500 pursuant to a settlement. After their lawyer’s ...
Coverage was excluded for a rental property under the vacancy exclusion despite the insured living in a trailer beside the home while it was under renovation. Insurance law – Homeowner’s insurance – Exclusions – “Resident” – “Vacant” – Definition – Terms of policy Taylor v. Co-operators General Insurance Co., [2017] A.J. No. 1232, 2017 ABQB 705, Alberta Court ...
Additional insureds were entitled to appoint their own counsel due a conflict which arose because the mix of covered and uncovered claims meant that the additional insureds’ defence directly conflicted with the pecuniary interests of the insurers and there was a risk information obtained for defence purposes might be used against the additional insureds for ...
The phrase “knew or ought to have known” under s. 91 of the Insurance (Vehicle) Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 231 imports a purely objective standard. A reasonable person in the position of the 17-year-old plaintiff ought to have known that a vehicle driven by a 15-year-old was being driven without consent of the owner at ...
A fire loss caused by the tenant’s negligent maintenance of a motor vehicle was excluded from coverage pursuant to the omnibus motorized vehicle exclusion. Homeowner’s insurance – Fire – Landlord and tenant – Exclusions – Action – Subrogation Horsefield v. Economical Mutual Insurance Co., [2017] O.J. No. 4226, 2017 ONSC 4868, Ontario Superior Court of ...
The plaintiff cyclist who was found unconscious and injured was unable to prove negligence against an unidentified driver because there was no evidence as to what caused the plaintiff to fly from his bike, or that the unidentified vehicle had moved at all prior to the accident. Automobile insurance – Statutory provisions – Negligence – ...
The insurers were ordered to pay the insureds’ legal fees after acknowledging a duty to defend despite the fact that the fees incurred were almost double what the insurers stated was reasonable. However, the insureds were only awarded a small portion of the fees claimed after the insurers acknowledged the duty to defend as the ...
