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Municipal Liability

Our lawyers have expertise in assessing and defending municipal liabilities. We assist our client in several areas of municipal liability including maintenance and repair of roads and highways, train and subway issues, environmental accidents and loss, and occupiers’ liability.

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Please scroll through the list of our Municipal Liability lawyers:

ALEX REYES

(Partner)

BRIAN M. YUNG

(Partner)

KARI-ANNE LAYNG

(Associate)

TIZIANA SERPA

(Associate)

YALDA AZIZ

(Associate)

KARINA DZIUBA

(Associate)

ISABEL COX

(Associate)

Recent Publications

Blogs

Visual Aids at Trial: How Nydam v. Cunningham Clarifies the Limits of Demonstrative Evidence

Blogs

Wrap Up or Wrap Out? Expanding the Definition of Subcontractors

ADAM IMTIAZ

Nov 18, 2024

Appellate

The Ontario Court of Appeal Concludes that A Party’s Resources Is Not a Factor in Weighing its Decision to Not Settle a Case When it Comes to Costs by Grant Black

The Ontario Court of Appeal Concludes that A Party’s Resources Is Not a Factor in Weighing its Decision to Not Settle a Case When it Comes to Costs by Grant Black

May 10, 2021

Blogs

Court of Appeal Clarifies the Duty to Defend and Ability to Control Litigation Where Overlapping Coverage Exists: Markham v AIG

Blogs

Slip and Falls on Public Property: Are you an Occupier? Janssen v. William and Markle Jewellers Ltd. Clarifies by Leah Dick

Slip and Falls on Public Property: Are you an Occupier? Janssen v. William and Markle Jewellers Ltd. Clarifies by Leah Dick

Jan 28, 2019

Blogs

Refusal to Mediate, the Use (and Expense) of Jury Focus Groups, ATE Insurance, and Their Impact on Costs – Canfield v. Brockville Ontario Speedway

Refusal to Mediate, the Use (and Expense) of Jury Focus Groups, ATE Insurance, and Their Impact on Costs – Canfield v. Brockville Ontario Speedway

Jun 06, 2018

Blogs

Sign a Waiver and its All Downhill from there: Court of Appeal Entrenches the Legal Use of “Waivers of Liability” at Ski Resorts across Ontario by Nicholas Carmichael

Sign a Waiver and its All Downhill from there: Court of Appeal Entrenches the Legal Use of “Waivers of Liability” at Ski Resorts across Ontario by Nicholas Carmichael

Apr 18, 2018

General Liability

LeFeuvre v. Boekee: Insurers Can Lose Control of the Handling of the Defence of a Claim When There is Potential Conflict with Their Insureds

SHANTI BARCLAY

Jan 11, 2018

Blogs

Duty to Defend Property Manager Where Listed on Policy as Additional Insured Not Automatic Where Property Manager May Be Liable in Negligence by Virtue of Its Own Acts or Omissions by Richard Kreder

Duty to Defend Property Manager Where Listed on Policy as Additional Insured Not Automatic Where Property Manager May Be Liable in Negligence by Virtue of Its Own Acts or Omissions by Richard Kreder

Oct 30, 2017

Blogs

Judicial Interventions During a Trial – How Far is Too Far?: Cannon v. Cemcor Apartments Inc., 2017 ONCA 378

Blogs

CAO Reaffirms That Commercial Hosts Can Assume “Occupier” Status of Municipal Sidewalks by Nicholas Carmichael

CAO Reaffirms That Commercial Hosts Can Assume “Occupier” Status of Municipal Sidewalks by Nicholas Carmichael

May 10, 2017

General Liability

Falling on Ice is not an Accident except when it is an Accident: How Not to Stumble While Navigating Through this Slippery Area of the Law

Falling on Ice is not an Accident except when it is an Accident: How Not to Stumble While Navigating Through this Slippery Area of the Law

Jun 09, 2016

Blogs

Understanding the Causation Test – Chisholm, Assaults and You

Understanding the Causation Test – Chisholm, Assaults and You

May 10, 2016

Blogs

Winters v. Haldimand County 2015 ONCA 98: Obvious Hazard, No Duty to Warn

Winters v. Haldimand County 2015 ONCA 98: Obvious Hazard, No Duty to Warn

Mar 23, 2015

General Liability

Saisho v. Loblaw Companies Ltd

TANYA ZIGOMANIS

TANYA ZIGOMANIS

Jul 22, 2014

Blogs

Are Summary Judgement Motions the Most Inefficient and Least Inexpensive Method of Litigation? Maybe so… by Zeitoon Vaezzadeh

Are Summary Judgement Motions the Most Inefficient and Least Inexpensive Method of Litigation? Maybe so… by Zeitoon Vaezzadeh

May 30, 2014

Publications

Rewarding Trepass and Other Enigmas – The Strange World of Self-Exclusion and Casino Liability

Publications

A Practitioner’s Perspective on Slip and Fall Cases

MICHAEL P. TAYLOR

MICHAEL P. TAYLOR

Sep 03, 1992

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