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November 25, 2019 – Fillmore Riley LLP is proud to sponsor the Robson Hall Negotiation Competition for the tenth consecutive year. The Fourteenth Annual Robson Hall Negotiation Competition, to be held on the evening of October 17, 2019, gives third-year students who were the best performers in the Legal Negotiation course, the opportunity to compete for the honour of...

October 25, 2019 – This July, the Ontario Court of Appeal released a unanimous decision holding that the limitation period to enforce a claim for indemnity for business interruption loss (“BI”) begins to run from the date of the underlying loss. In so holding, the Court declined to follow a well-established body of caselaw in the western provinces to...

September 20, 2019 – Best Lawyers recognized Charles A. Sherbo as the 2020 “Lawyer of the Year” for Insurance Law in Winnipeg. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honoured as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer-review assessments. Read...

December 17, 2018 – In 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada in Bhasin v. Hrynew recognized good faith as the general organising principle of the common law of contract and that the duty of honest performance of a contract was a manifestation of the general organizing principle. This holds true in the insurance realm and this duty of an...