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The Supreme Court In Flames: Fire Insurance Decisions After Kosmopoulos, Reuben A. Hasson

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines three recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions on fire insurance after the historic Kosmopoulos decision. In all three cases, the author finds a distressing lack of concern with relevant statutory provisions, policy arguments, and precedent. Responsibility for this deplorable state of affairs must be shared between the Court and counsel. Insurance law is a very complex body of law, deserving as much care as that of, say, the law of the Charter.