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ONCA confirms Non-Earner Benefits are deductible from a tort past income loss damages
The ONCA in Kolapully v Myles, 2024 ONCA 350, has confirmed that non-earner benefits under the O. Reg. 34/10: Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (“SABS”), are deductible from past income loss damages in tort. The Court found that non-earner benefits fall in the...
Waived Limitation Period for Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct Claims
Generally speaking, in Ontario, litigants have two years to commence a civil lawsuit. However, in the cases of the sexual assault, this two-year limitation period is waived. Section 16(1) of the Ontario Limitations Act states, “16 (1) There is no limitation period...
Business Pays When They Fail to Take Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault At Work Seriously
The case of S.E. v. 2474489 Ontario Inc. (o/a Opa! Souvlaki), 2024 HRTO 343, is a recent decision of the Human Rights Tribunal, where an employer was found in breach of the Ontario Human Rights Code (“Code”) on account of sexual harassment and assault perpetrated...
Spoliation as an Independent Cause of Action? The Jury Remains Out
The issue of spoliation is rarely dealt with in case law. It is a term that one hears regularly in the context of insurance claims related litigation and other litigation generally. Subrogating insurers want (or should want to) to ensure evidence is preserved to...
Just Dig: Musings on Collateral Benefits
In the long awaited July 14, 2022 LAT award rendered in #20-007407/AABS by Vice-chair, Sandeep Johal, the question arose whether an LTD benefit that was not being received could be deducted from an IRB benefit. The upshot was that the deadline for the SABS...
Arguing Over Nothing: The Priority Dilemma
Seinfeld’s charm was that it was “a show about nothing.” Of course, anyone on “the priority circuit” knows that this concept is not limited to TV, and that sooner or later, you have been, or you will be, involved in a priority dispute “about nothing.” You get on...