The Supreme Court of Canada has denied a man a $200,000 insurance award, saying a rare side effect of genital herpes that paralyzed him was not an accident. In a 9-0 ruling, the justices said Randolph Gibbens was not entitled to the payout from the Co-operators Life Insurance Company’s group policy. Gibbens acknowledged having unprotected [...]
Fifty five percent of Canadians would not give up TV, forty five percent would not give up red meat and 34 would not sacrifice alcohol … even if it would add an additional five healthy years to their lives. A recent RBC Insurance survey asked Canadians just exactly what they’d give up for this extra [...]
View the video here on your mobile device. Narrator: There has been tremendous amount of aggregation of brokerages over the last decade. ILSTV spoke with John McArthur, the Chairman of AMAC Consultants Inc., to find out what events inspired this trend. John McArthur: As far as brokers are concerned there has been a tremendous amount [...]
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When it comes to winter driving, 63 percent of drivers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan say they are anxious, according to the TD Insurance Winter Driving Poll, making them the most tense drivers in the country. Nationally, 52 percent of Canadians say they are anxious about winter driving. However, despite their nervousness, 81 percent of Manitoba [...]
A BC home inspector must pay nearly $200,000 to his clients, who were told that the home they wanted to buy needed only basic repairs. A BC Supreme Court Judge ruled that home inspector Imre Toth was negligent because he did not inspect the entire home, telling the buyers that the $1.1 million house needed [...]
