Peter E.J. Wells

"Dark as a Dungeon and Damp as the Dew..." The Supreme Court of Canada Evaluates Insurance Policy Exclusions for Loss Occasioned by "Faulty or Improper Design"
Hartley Lefton, Peter E.J. Wells, October 22, 2009
A recent judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") has clarified the standard necessary for the "faulty or improper design" insurance exclusion to apply. Typically, this exclusion will relieve an insurer from providing indemnity for a loss resulting from design problems...

Black Liquor - Green Fuel or Greenwash?
Peter E.J. Wells, Cyndee Todgham Cherniak, September 14, 2009, previously published by Lang Michener Environment, Energy & Emissions Trading Brief Summer 2009 & the Environmental LAW360 e-newsletter on September 2009
Black liquor is not the product of a pot still in rural Tennessee, but a toxic by-product of the kraft wood pulping process. On May 20, 2009 Canada, together with the European Union, Brazil and Chile, wrote to the United States Congress urging them to repeal a tax credit for the use of black liquor...

Policy Exclusions for Faulty or Improper Design
Peter E.J. Wells, Hartley Lefton, September 14, 2009, previously published by International Law Office, Lexology, Construction Law International & Lang Michener LLP InBrief Fall 2009 on Fall 2009
A recent judgment by the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") has clarified the standard necessary for the "faulty or improper design" insurance exclusion to apply. Typically, this exclusion would relieve an insurer from providing indemnity for a loss resulting from design problems...