*PRE-ORDER, APPROX 4-6 BUSINESS DAYS* Disability Insurance Law in Canada 3rd edition by Eric Schjerning 9780779899562 [ZZ]

Paperback, Thomson Reuters

Disability Insurance Law in Canada (Third Edition) is a comprehensive and practical guide to the law of disability insurance in all of the common law provinces in Canada. The text provides a detailed and authoritative guide to all issues concerning disability insurance litigation in Canada with over 850 case citations. This book includes input from leading practitioners across Canada, both plaintiff and defence, and provides readers with a detailed overview of the fundamentals of the practice ensuring nonspecialists can take on cases with confidence.

This edition includes:

• A discussion of all leading cases on not only what constitutes total disability, but on related topics such as satisfying the onus of proof, the taxability of LTD settlements, punitive and aggravated damages, the operation of exclusionary clauses and policy offsets and the availability of jury trials in LTD actions.
• New chapters on Mediation Tips, LTD claims from a plaintiff counsel’s perspective authored by Matt Lalande of Lalande Personal Injury Lawyers, and a revamped chapter on evidence at LTD trials.
• Appendices containing summaries of virtually every decided case in the past 30 odd years on selected issues to help readers find the case situation closest to their own.
• Table of Concordance of the various Accident and Sickness Insurance sections of the provincial Insurance Acts.