Building Officials Suspending Site Inspections during COVID-19 (Part II) – Bulletin #4
Pandemic Risk Management Series.
COVID-19 Bulletin #4 – Building Officials Suspending Site Inspections (Part II)
Building Officials Suspending Site Inspections during COVID-19 (Part I) – Bulletin #3
Pandemic Risk Management Series. COVID-19 Bulletin #3 – Building Officials Suspending Site Inspections (Part I)
Delays, Substitutions and Claims during COVID-19 – Bulletin #2
Pandemic Risk Management Series. COVID-19 Bulletin #2 – Delays, Substitutions and Personal Injury Claims
Potential Claims and Things You Can Do Now during COVID-19 – Bulletin #1
Pandemic Risk Management Series.
COVID-19 Special Bulletin #1 – Potential Claims and Things You can Do NOW.
Claims Expense Contribution (also known as Claims Expense Deductible)
Effective April 1, 2020 Pro-Demnity Insurance Company will begin applying a Claims Expense
Contribution (CEC) to a small number of Policyholders. The CEC will impose a new deductible on the Expenses involved in defending a claim, commencing at the point where the claim must be defended, whether through mediation, litigation, or other legal means.
Impact of cap on Claims Expenses
NOTE: Please be advised the Claims Expense Limit amendment mentioned in this important notice from 2019, is now fully integrated into Pro-Demnity’s professional liability insurance policy wordings as of April […]
Client-Authored Contracts for Architectural Services
Risk Transfer Concerns with Insurance Implications The following draws on material originally developed by Pro-Demnity and its legal counsel, to assist the RAIC respond to questions arising from a presentation […]
Infrastructure Ontario Supplementary Conditions to OAA Document 600-2013
The most recent IO Supplementary Conditions to an OAA Document 600-2013 were issued by Infrastructure Ontario (IO) in June, 2017. As was the case with the previous amendments to the […]
Revisions to Non-Drained Exterior Wall Exclusion
Revisions to Non-Drained Exterior WallExclusion clarify that: An architect’s design that may have complied with the water ingress coverage requirements in a Pro-Demnity policy but was NOT constructed in compliance […]
Dealing with Substitutions to Your Design
Recent research into claims arising against architects has confirmed that many involve substitutions to the systems and designs provided by the architect or its consultants. Although many substitutions factor in […]