Can the insurance company use my Fitbit data? Ottawa insurance lawyers provide guidance.
Wearable fitness trackers are all the rage. They measure your heart rate, sleep, eating habits, and more. They follow you on your wrist wherever you go. And insurance companies and law firms are keenly aware of this. FuelBand, Fitbit, Jawbone and other such exercise gadgets store personalized data about their wearers, so that it may afterwards be analyzed. While intended for a user’s own benefit, this gold mine of information is presently being used in a personal injury case in Calgary, Alberta. While it is a Canadian case, the implications of it are gathering international attention.. It could be the first time objective evidence is available to quantify an injured party’s loss, instead of the traditional way of gathering medical evidence (i.e., booking a medical appointment and self-reporting …
The issue of mandatory insurance for farm ATVs in Ontario – ATV Accidents in Ottawa, Ontario
On July 11, 2014, the Ontario Court of Appeal released a decision of great interest to the farming community, as it relates to All Terrain Vehicles (ATVs). In Matheson v Lewis, 2014 ONCA 542 (http://canlii.ca/t/g80hl), the Court ruled that unmodified ATVs used in the context of farming must be insured if driven on public roadways. Farm ATVs—often used as a speedy way of surveying large swaths of land—do not fall within the “self-propelled implement of husbandry” exception of the Highway Traffic Act, RSO 1990, c H.8 [HTA], which otherwise encompasses farm machinery. The story behind this case is quite sad. Arthur Matheson, a farmer from Perth, gated sheep on a parcel of land at the most westerly part of his 900-acre property. To get to this parcel, he …