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December 12, 2014 – The Ontario Superior Court recently sent a much-welcome message with respect to costs awards in its decision Hoang v. Vicentini. The action involved a six year old pedestrian who was struck by a car, just after being dropped off at a busy intersection by his father. The six year old was seriously injured. The Defendants...

August 17, 2014 – Kelly Santini‘s Mitch Kitagawa successfully brought a motion for summary judgment to dismiss the plaintiff’s action in Mississippi River Corporations v. Municipal Electric Association Reciprocal Insurance Exchange 2014 ONSC 3784. In the ruling, Justice M.Z. Charbonneau agreed that the costs associated with the plaintiff’s voluntary decision to conduct repairs to its hydroelectric facility in Almonte,...

July 16, 2014 – Introduction If you have been handling personal injury claims for any length of time you have acquired a basic knowledge of the law of damages. You innately know what a plaintiff needs to prove to recover damages and what steps can be undertaken by the defence to attack the plaintiff’s damages claims. However, in my...

June 20, 2014 – The end of 2013 and the first few months of 2014 saw several developments in insurance law and civil procedure. These developments included rulings from trial level Courts up to the Supreme Court of Canada and cover a number areas important to insurers. In this webinar, recorded June 16th, 2014, insurance defence lawyers Mitchell Kitagawa...