In Security National Insurance Company v. Markel Insurance Company, 2012 ONCA 683 (CanLII), the Ontario Court of Appeal considered the appeals of two decisions of the Superior Court of Justice interpreting s. 66(1) of the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule – Accidents on or after November 1, 1996, O. Reg. 403/96 (“SABS”), enacted pursuant to the...Read More

In Martin v. Fleming, 2012 ONCA 750, a decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario released on November 5, 2012, the Court interpreted section 267.5(7) of Ontario’s Insurance Act, which stipulates that certain amounts are to be deducted from non-pecuniary damage awards (pain and suffering) for bodily injury or death arising directly or indirectly from...Read More

The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has announced that they will provide an additional 1600 decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada on their website meaning that users will now have access to over 9,000 decision of the Court dating back to 1907. Currently, there are approximately 1 million court and tribunal decisions available on...Read More

According to a recent Toronto Star article, Highway 401 is statistically the safest multi-lane roadway system in North America. The article cites the latest data from Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation indicating that the highway’s fatality rate of .62 per 10,000 licensed drivers is the lowest ever recorded in Ontario and the lowest in North America....Read More