Matheson v Lewis: Farm ATVs Require Insurance
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal (“ONCA”) decision in Matheson v Lewis, 2014 ONCA 542 [Matheson], held that an unmodified all-terrain vehicle (“ATV”) owned by a farmer and used in farm...
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Kozel v The Personal Insurance Company: Failure to Renew a Driver’s License, a Car Crash, and Relief from Forfeiture
In Kozel v The Personal Insurance Company, 2014 ONCA 130 [Kozel], a decision released on February 19, 2014, the Ontario Court of Appeal considered the scope of relief from forfeiture...
Financial Incentives and Efficiency Concerns: The Test for Catastrophic Impairment in Pastore v. Aviva Canada Inc.
In Pastore v Aviva Canada Inc, 2012 ONCA 642, a unanimous Court of Appeal established a new, lower threshold for catastrophic impairment. The decision also permitted the inclusion of chronic...
Westmount (City) v Rossy: Faulting Quebec’s No-Fault Insurance Law
As the proverb goes, when a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to hear it, did it happen at all? When a tree hits a man...
