May 08, 2026
Once an insurance audit has been initiated, a health provider’s actions, including potential missteps, can significantly affect the outcome. Audits conducted by extended health benefits insurers frequently expand beyond routine claim verification and may lead to repayment demands, delistings or complaints to regulatory colleges.
May 08, 2026
B.C. is making regulatory changes and expanding the role of midwives to include abortion and continuous pregnancy care, allowing them to provide additional reproductive health services.
May 08, 2026
McLennan Ross has added Matt Riskin as a partner in its Edmonton office.
May 08, 2026
In remarks delivered to the House of Commons, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada emphasized the “impact of a rapidly evolving technological environment,” called for modernization of federal privacy laws and advocated for permanent funding of his office.
May 08, 2026
Post-winter injury files are arriving later, and the delay is increasingly being used to defeat claims outright. People are coming forward weeks after a slip on ice, a fall in a parking lot or a low-speed winter collision with symptoms that were not obvious on day one. The incident is often straightforward. The litigation problem is whether the later impairment can be connected, on evidence, to that earlier event.
May 08, 2026
The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) has elected K. Jay Ralston as its president for the 2026–27 term.
May 08, 2026
Appeal by appellant from a judgment of the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal which upheld a judgment ordering that the residue of proceeds resulting from the exercise of a power of sale be paid to the respondent. Kenmount Terrace (the “Property”) was owned by the respondent and was encumbered by numerous mortgages and claims.
May 08, 2026
Spoiler Alert: The following contains plot details from Better Call Saul. Charles McGill, the decorated senior partner in the TV series Better Call Saul, is everything the legal profession tells itself it stands for: principled, authoritative, a guardian of the rule of law. His younger brother Jimmy — the poor, hustling, desperate Saul Goodman — represents everything the profession looks down on. But as artificial intelligence dismantles the gatekeeping function that long justified the legal profession’s self-image, it is worth asking: which one of them is a more accurate reflection of a lawyer?
May 08, 2026
Appeal by Pre‑Con Builders Ltd. (Pre‑Con) from a decision granting summary judgment in favour of the third parties, Neil Cooper Architect Inc. and Neil Cooper (collectively, Cooper), and dismissing Pre‑Con’s third‑party claim. The underlying litigation concerned latent building envelope deficiencies discovered after a fire in a condominium complex constructed by Pre‑Con, which retained Cooper to provide architectural services.
May 07, 2026
The federal privacy commissioner has called on the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to strengthen protections for taxpayer information after finding persistent gaps in the agency’s privacy and security systems despite reforms introduced since 2024.