Insurance
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November 15, 2024
AI in the courtroom: Canadian Judicial Council’s new guidelines
With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Canadian courts are under increasing pressure to address its impact. While some view AI as a possible threat to the rule of law and democracy within Canada’s justice system, AI also holds promise for enhancing court operations, reducing workloads, supporting judicial functions and improving access to justice.
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November 14, 2024
FSRA releases Proposed Guidance on Automobile Insurance Rating and Underwriting Supervision
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario’s (FSRA) role in the automobile insurance sector includes a responsibility to ensure that all Ontarians have access to fairly priced automobile insurance. Recently, FSRA introduced its Proposed Guidance: Automobile Insurance Rating and Underwriting Supervision Guidance (Proposed Guidance), which aims to transition the sector to a principles-based regulatory model.
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November 14, 2024
Removal of untranslated English decisions on website won’t end novel lawsuit against SCC: plaintiff
The Supreme Court of Canada’s removal of thousands of pre-1970 (mostly unilingual-English) judgments from its website won’t end an unprecedented Federal Court lawsuit that aims to compel the top court’s registry to fix alleged violations of the Official Languages Act by translating the court’s unilingual decisions into the other official language, says the plaintiff language rights group Droits collectifs Québec.
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November 13, 2024
National workplace health and safety organization launches online portal for businesses
The Hamilton, Ont.-based Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has launched an online portal aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses stay on the right side of workplace safety laws and regulations.
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November 11, 2024
Court certifies class action related to Vancouver fire that killed 2, displaced 70
The British Columbia Supreme Court has certified a class action arising from a 2022 fire at a hotel housing vulnerable residents in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for negligence and occupier’s liability claims.
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November 08, 2024
SCC elaborates on framework, scope for judicial review of regs and other subordinate legislation
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled 9-0 that the Vavilov “reasonableness” standard for judicial review — informed by some of the Katz Group principles — presumptively applies when courts review whether subordinate legislation is authorized by law.
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November 07, 2024
Trudeau government falling behind in protecting at-risk animal and plant species: federal watchdog
Working at its current glacial pace, the resource-starved independent committee of experts, tasked by law with making the species-at-risk status assessments and reassessments needed to protect and restore endangered species, will take almost 30 years to assess the currently most vulnerable species and more than a century to assess those that are potentially at risk of disappearing, warns a new report from Canada’s Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development.
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November 07, 2024
ACTIONS - By insured against insurer - Property coverage - Defences - Misrepresentations or non-disclosure
Appeal by appellants from application judge’s dismissal of their application seeking declaration that respondent had duty to defend and indemnify them in the purchasers' action ("Underlying Action"), on grounds that application judge made several errors. The appellants sold a residential property.
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November 04, 2024
Fed. Ct. judges take to YouTube to address bar’s & litigants’ non-disclosure of gen-AI court filings
Knowing that at least some (if not how many) lawyers and self-represented litigants are failing to disclose their use of ChatGPT or other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools when they create content for documents filed in Federal Court, the national trial court has taken the novel step of posting YouTube videos, titled “Compliance with the Notice on the Use of Artificial Intelligence,” featuring judges who explain how to comply with the mandatory AI-use disclosure obligations the court imposed 10 months ago.
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November 01, 2024
Ontario proposes new law targeting fraudulent vehicle registrations
The Ontario government is proposing legislation to create a new provincial offence for fraudulent vehicle registrations as part of a multi-pronged effort to reduce vehicle theft.