Jan 26, 2015 | Commercial Litigation, Insurance
By: Camille M. Dunbar, Litigation Associate The British Columbia Supreme Court recently released its decision in Acciona Infrastructure Canada Inc. v. Allianz Global Risks US Insurance Company,[1] which considered for the first time in Canada the LEG 2/96 clause, a...
Oct 3, 2014 | Commercial Litigation, Product Liability
By: Jeffrey A. Brown, Partner The Ontario Superior Court of Justice rendered a decision[1] involving a product liability claim that considered new legislation and guidelines arising from the Walkerton water crisis. This case suggests that even if there has been no...
Sep 24, 2014 | Commercial Litigation, Insurance
By: Lawrence G. Theall, Partner The Ontario Court of Appeal recently held that a broad contributing cause exclusion does not apply simply because an excluded peril was included in the chain of causation. In O’Byrne v. Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Co.,[1]...
