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July 30, 2024 – Kelly Santini’s Shawn O’Connor represented a film producer in a personal injury action brought by an actor in the film who suffered a dog bite on the film set during filming. After a two-day hearing before the Workplace Safety and Insurance Tribunal we were successful in obtaining a declaration that the actor was a worker...

June 14, 2024 – Our panel of RMC lawyers from across Canada explore how damage awards for chronic pain and psychological injuries are treated in different jurisdictions. During the webinar, panelists present five recent case examples from the Courts. Each case will conclude with a discussion on how other jurisdiction would likely treat a claim with similar facts.  ...

May 17, 2024 – In assessing costs, in Ontario, there have been two recent decisions where the Court has awarded costs on the basis that the defendants failed to make reasonable offers to settle.   In Lawless v Joanovits, 2024 ONSC 1561, Justice Edwards of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded costs exceeding the general damages in a...

March 21, 2024 – Loblaw Companies Limited v. Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada, 2024 ONCA 145 Every decade or so, a decision of monumental importance to the coverage bar gets handed to us. In 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada gave us Progressive Homes Ltd. v. Lombard General Insurance Co. of Canada. 2010 SCC 33. Before...