Municipal insurer excludes `disease outbreaksâ
Author of the article: Monte Sonnenberg
Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020  â¢Â December 28, 2020  â¢Â 2 minute read  â¢Â Norfolk Countyâs comprehensive insurance coverage for 2021 will cost $1.82 million â an increase of 16.8 percent over 2020. The coverage from Frank Cowan Co. of Princeton also includes an exclusion for âcommunicable disease outbreaksâ such as those associated with COVID-19. â Monte Sonnenberg
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Ontario municipalities continue to pay for a loophole that forces them to cover 100 per cent of the award in a negligence lawsuit even when they are only marginally at fault.
âJoint-and-several-liabilityâ was cited as a factor earlier this month for a 16.8 per cent increase in Norfolk Countyâs insurance costs for 2021.
Municipal insurer excludes `disease outbreaksâ
Author of the article: Monte Sonnenberg
Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020  â¢Â December 28, 2020  â¢Â 2 minute read  â¢Â Norfolk Countyâs comprehensive insurance coverage for 2021 will cost $1.82 million â an increase of 16.8 percent over 2020. The coverage from Frank Cowan Co. of Princeton also includes an exclusion for âcommunicable disease outbreaksâ such as those associated with COVID-19. â Monte Sonnenberg
Article content
Ontario municipalities continue to pay for a loophole that forces them to cover 100 per cent of the award in a negligence lawsuit even when they are only marginally at fault.
âJoint-and-several-liabilityâ was cited as a factor earlier this month for a 16.8 per cent increase in Norfolk Countyâs insurance costs for 2021.
Municipal insurer excludes `disease outbreaksâ
Author of the article: Monte Sonnenberg
Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020  â¢Â December 28, 2020  â¢Â 2 minute read  â¢Â Norfolk Countyâs comprehensive insurance coverage for 2021 will cost $1.82 million â an increase of 16.8 percent over 2020. The coverage from Frank Cowan Co. of Princeton also includes an exclusion for âcommunicable disease outbreaksâ such as those associated with COVID-19. â Monte Sonnenberg
Article content
Ontario municipalities continue to pay for a loophole that forces them to cover 100 per cent of the award in a negligence lawsuit even when they are only marginally at fault.
âJoint-and-several-liabilityâ was cited as a factor earlier this month for a 16.8 per cent increase in Norfolk Countyâs insurance costs for 2021.
Municipal insurer excludes `disease outbreaksâ
Author of the article: Monte Sonnenberg
Publishing date: Dec 28, 2020  â¢Â December 28, 2020  â¢Â 2 minute read  â¢Â Norfolk Countyâs comprehensive insurance coverage for 2021 will cost $1.82 million â an increase of 16.8 percent over 2020. The coverage from Frank Cowan Co. of Princeton also includes an exclusion for âcommunicable disease outbreaksâ such as those associated with COVID-19. â Monte Sonnenberg
Article content
Ontario municipalities continue to pay for a loophole that forces them to cover 100 per cent of the award in a negligence lawsuit even when they are only marginally at fault.
âJoint-and-several-liabilityâ was cited as a factor earlier this month for a 16.8 per cent increase in Norfolk Countyâs insurance costs for 2021.
COVID-19: Ontario Govt. Announces $695M to Support Municipalities
At a news conference at Queen’s Park, Steve Clark, the Ontario minister of municipal affairs and housing, announces that the provincial government will provide an additional $695 million to municipalities during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He is joined by Adam Vaughan, Liberal MP and parliamentary secretary to the federal minister of families, children and social development; John Tory, the mayor of Toronto; and Graydon Smith, president of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario and the mayor of Bracebridge. From the financial relief being announced, $299 million will be distributed across all 444 municipalities to help them avoid operating deficits in 2021. The government will also allocate an additional $396 million to 48 municipalities that have been the hardest hit by COVID-19. (December 16, 2020) (no interpretation)