Insurance
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March 18, 2024
Prairie court looks to no-fault auto regulations in worker’s ‘room and board’ case
Saskatchewan’s top court has “empowered” regulations governing the province’s no-fault auto insurance program in deciding the unique case of an injured fishing camp employee fighting to have the value of his room and board included with his income replacement benefits, says a lawyer.
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March 15, 2024
Supreme Court rules limited statutory rights of appeal do not preclude access to judicial review
In a 9-0 judgment supportive of litigants’ access to judicial review, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a limited statutory right of appeal in a case does not preclude judicial review for matters not the subject of appeal, i.e. where there is an appeal right limited to questions of law, judicial review is available for questions of fact or mixed fact and law.
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March 15, 2024
New partner at Blaney McMurtry LLP
Vagmi Patel has been made a partner at Blaney McMurtry LLP.
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March 15, 2024
Manitoba looking to bar suspected drunk drivers from appealing suspensions for refusing interlock
Manitoba is proposing a change to its traffic laws that would bar those charged with drunk driving from appealing their licence suspensions for refusing to install an ignition interlock system in their vehicles.
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March 14, 2024
Nurse, lawyer named co-managing partner at Howie, Sacks & Henry
Renée Vinett, a lawyer who is also a registered nurse, is the new co-managing partner, along with Paul Miller, at Howie, Sacks & Henry.
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March 13, 2024
OSFI’s expanding role in regulation of artificial intelligence and machine learning
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) has recently undertaken measures to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial services sector. These actions come in the wake of OSFI’s 2023-2024 annual risk outlook, which indicated that it is exploring systemic and institutional vulnerabilities associated with digital innovations, including blockchain AI and ML (see Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, “OSFI’s Annual Risk Outlook – Fiscal Year 2023-2024” (April 18, 2023).)
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March 13, 2024
PROCEEDINGS - Appeals and judicial review - Standard of review - Palpable and overriding error
Appeal by Leung from dismissal of her counterclaim seeking damages for injuries she alleged she suffered in motor vehicle accident. She argued that the trial judge made multiple errors in his analysis in dismissing her counterclaim.
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March 08, 2024
CRA should redefine ‘disability’ in Income Tax Act, says advisory group
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) should update the current definition of disability in the Income Tax Act to reflect what it calls a more “biopsychosocial” model of disability, according to the 2023 annual report by the agency’s Disability Advisory Committee (DAC).
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March 07, 2024
Modernizing national security laws could also clarify threshold to invoke Emergencies Act: LeBlanc
Ottawa is considering reforming the threshold for invoking the federal Emergencies Act, as part of a broader “more holistic review of national security legislation,” with the Liberal government committed to introducing amendments to “modernize” the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) Act, the Security of Information Act, and the Criminal Code “in the coming months,” says Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc.
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March 05, 2024
Federal lawyers ratify new collective agreement gains that achieve ‘comparable’ pay to Ontario Crowns
Members of the union representing more than 3,300 federal government lawyers and Crowns voted overwhelmingly to ratify a “hard won” new collective agreement, featuring pay increases of 12.5 per cent (13.14 per cent compounded) over four years — and making the pay rates for federal Crowns “comparable” to those of their Ontario counterparts, who are the highest paid public-sector lawyers in Canada, says the Association of Justice Counsel (AJC).