How to manage your clients and minimize claims
Once you’ve decided to take on a client, it’s important to be risk-proactive.
My client was my friend, until they sued me
Fourteen guidelines for architects on how to deal with personal–
professional relationships.
Limitation Periods: Is an architect ever safe from litigation?
By the very nature of the profession, when an architect is sued, it has to do with a dispute centred on a building. Since most buildings are designed to last […]
What Architects need to know about 30.10 motions
Imagine this scenario: a busy architect is out making a site visit when it happens: their phone buzzes and an email pops up from a colleague alerting them that legal […]
Client Management as a Risk Management Strategy
Seven client-focused things architects can do to reduce liability claims.
Working together to keep water in its place
This is an abbreviated version of an article that was published in the Fall 2018 edition of Pushing the Envelope Canada, which is printed twice per year by Matrix Group […]
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.
Sorry. Not Sorry.
The Apology Act is intended to make it possible for professionals, including architects, to apologize for errors, without necessarily Incurring liability. The word “necessarily” is important here, since there are critical exceptions. Danielle Muise discusses the Act as it applies to Ontario architects.
Eight Insurance Risk Trends to Watch
Bruce Palmer, President and CEO shares eight important trends that will affect insurance risks and claims.
5 things a Pro-Demnity lawyer doesn’t want to hear from an architect
John Little, Partner, Keel Cotrelle LLP Over the years, I have had a great many initial meetings with architects and Pro-Demnity Claims Managers as we start to learn more about […]