Pro-Demnity Sponsors the 2022 Canadian Conference of Building Science and Technology
Proud to be a Silver Sponsor of the 2022 Canadian Conference of Building Science and Technology.
Foreign Jurisdictions and Architects’ Liability
When the World is not Enough Almost every liability (professional or otherwise) insurance policy has a territorial or jurisdictional limit, often referred to in terms such as “Your Policy Territory”. […]
2022 Annual Update
From our early beginnings as an indemnity plan in 1987, Pro-Demnity was designed to be the architects’ trusted, protective, professional ally, providing Ontario’s architectural practices with professional liability insurance solutions and risk management services.
We enable the architectural profession to improve society and human interaction through better design, by supporting the wise, effective, and efficient management of risk.
Read our 2022 Annual Update and learn how we are protective by design.
NEW: Cyber limited Exclusion and Data Exclusion Endorsement
Effective April 1, 2022 upon renewal, the Cyber Limited Exclusion and Data Exclusion Endorsement is added to professional liability policies.
Architects’ Claims Stories: Real and Unreal
Every insurance claim tells a story of human behaviour. There’s the factual side: what happened and why? And there’s the outcome: the physical, economic, emotional, social, relationship or professional consequences. […]
No Written Record
This pilot episode of Architects’ Claims Stories deals with the consequences of an architect failing to keep written records.
Who’s In Charge?
Three architects, a construction manager and one engineer, all reviewing one mason’s work, cause confusion on a job site. An expert is hired but his advice is ignored.
Field Level
An architect’s duty to the Owner as “Inspector of work” is tested; limits of expertise are exceeded, and liability for incorrect work is incurred.
A Home is Not a House
An architect fails to record client instructions, confusing residential ambiance with institutional requirements, and shoddy workmanship goes unobserved by the engineer.