Canadian hit by driver during cancer ride is told by insurance the charity is liable - Canadian Cycling Magazine
Canadian hit by driver during cancer ride is told by insurance the charity is liable - Canadian Cycling Magazine
5 years later, Erin Townley’s civil case remains unresolved, plagued by delays and uncertain end
You know what would be cool? If Canada had actual public healthcare so insurance companies wouldn't be suing cancer charities (which we also wouldn't need if we had well funded public healthcare).
42And here I thought the insurance company was supposed to pay you and then go after who they think is responsible on their own time...
19The courts already found the driver responsible and convicted him... why the insurance company hasn't been forced to acknowledge this is anyone's guess.
24It's a case of overlapping coverage. Her personal insurance company isn't disputing that the uninsured driver was responsible. They're arguing—not unreasonably—that the organizer of the event is more directly responsible for damages incurred while participating in their event (after the driver, naturally), so their insurance should cover the expense.
No one likes to be caught in the middle of something like this, but at the same time it would be irresponsible of the insurance company, toward both their investors and their other customers, to simply pay out without question when someone else should be paying.
3I'm guessing $$.
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While I think this is bonkers, the organisation and the charity should ideally both have insurance too. I'm a trustee for a charity that organises marathons for fundraising and we have insurance partly in case the worst happens.
18I do agree, but part of me wonders if the insurer for an event would still give her the runaround.
The fact remains that the driver was found to be responsible, so someone's insurance needs to help this lady out. The driver was uninsured, so her insurance company needs to step up.
I'm glad the article names and shames the company. 😀
9Agreed. It's one thing to defend an insured from a claim. It's another thing entirely for an insurer to refuse to protect its own customer who was paying it insurance premiums for years just in case she got in a crash with an uninsured driver. Shame, shame on them.
I have less of a problem with the comparative fault assertions, assuming there is a legitimate basis for them. And yeah, it's weird the charity didn't have insurance for the event, but I can think of several ways it could have been excluded from coverage, so it's hard to say.
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Getting mild Mr Bates vs The Post Office vibes from this article.
6No, that's just normal insurance things.
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