In October 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada reversed two Ontario Court of Appeal decisions on the issue of whether or not, under certain circumstances, an injury can be said to have arisen from the “use or operation of a motor vehicle”.  Mark Charron and Jaye Hooper of our firm successfully represented the appellant in one of those decisions, Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company v. Herbison et al. Justice Ian Binnie wrote both Lumbermens v. Herbison and the companion decision of Citadel v. Vytlingam on behalf of a unanimous court.

Go to Lexis Nexis website for the full court decision.