{"id":8094,"date":"2022-02-25T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/?p=8094"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T22:53:47","slug":"ontario-auto-insurers-failure-to-mediate-increases-their-legal-cost-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/ontario-auto-insurers-failure-to-mediate-increases-their-legal-cost-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Auto Insurer\u2019s Failure to Mediate Increases their Legal Cost Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This decision reveals that the court has two ways to penalize an Ontario automobile insurer who rejects a Plaintiff\u2019s request to mediate an automobile related claim.\u00a0 The first is a cost sanction under section 258.6 of the <em>Insurance Act, <\/em>R.S.O. 1990, c.I.8, (the \u201c<strong>Act<\/strong>\u201d) , and the second is under Rule 57.01(1)(e) if the court is satisfied that the failure to attend the requested mediation unnecessarily prolonged the mediation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As more fully outlined in my article entitled \u201c<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/360mediations.com\/en\/rare-statutory-right-to-mediation-in-mva-cases\/\">A Rare Ontario Statutory Right to Mediation<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d under the Act an Ontario automobile insurer can be compelled to a private mediation by a party who sustained damages from the use or operation of a motor vehicle in Ontario, and indeed, if the insurer refuses to participate in such a mediation once requested, cost sanctions can follow.<\/p>\n<p>This case helps explain the two ways in which heightened costs can be awarded, and reminds us that the language of the Act \u201cis not a mere suggestion or recommendation to insurers and plaintiffs that they should participate in mediation at an early stage in a claim for damages following a motor vehicle accident. Where there is a failure to follow this legislative direction, the court must determine the appropriate remedial costs penalty in the circumstances: <em>Keam v. Caddey<\/em>, 2010 ONCA 565, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2010\/2010onca565\/2010onca565.html\">103 OR (3d) 626<\/a>; <em>Williston v. Hamilton (Police Service)<\/em>, 2013 ONCA 296, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2013\/2013onca296\/2013onca296.html\">115 OR (3d) 144<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Estate of Diane Tsialtas v. Munroe<\/em><\/strong>, 2022 ONSC 1207<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1207\/2022onsc1207.html\">https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/2022\/2022onsc1207\/2022onsc1207.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This decision reveals that the court has two ways to penalize an Ontario automobile insurer who rejects a Plaintiff\u2019s request to mediate an automobile related claim.\u00a0 The first is a cost sanction under section 258.6 of the Insurance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.I.8, (the \u201cAct\u201d) , and the second is under Rule 57.01(1)(e) if the court&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/ontario-auto-insurers-failure-to-mediate-increases-their-legal-cost-exposure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario Auto Insurer\u2019s Failure to Mediate Increases their Legal Cost Exposure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,53,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costs","category-court-practice","category-mediation","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ontario Auto Insurer\u2019s Failure to Mediate Increases their Legal Cost Exposure - 360Mediations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ontario Auto Insurers who fail to mediate may pay more in costs under section 258.6 of the Ontario Insurance Act, or under Rule 57.01(1)(e).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/ontario-auto-insurers-failure-to-mediate-increases-their-legal-cost-exposure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ontario Auto Insurer\u2019s Failure to Mediate Increases their Legal Cost Exposure - 360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ontario Auto Insurers who fail to mediate may pay more in costs under section 258.6 of the Ontario Insurance Act, or under Rule 57.01(1)(e).\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mail.360mediations.com\/en\/ontario-auto-insurers-failure-to-mediate-increases-their-legal-cost-exposure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"360Mediations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/360Mediations-120028596572318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-25T22:53:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-25T22:53:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.360mediations.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/COURT-DECISIONS-360MEDIATIONS-1x1-1.png?fit=406%2C322&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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