{"id":892,"date":"2019-04-12T17:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T21:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=892"},"modified":"2020-04-28T20:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T00:16:28","slug":"ontario-the-limitation-period-in-s-51-of-the-sabs-is-not-subject-to-discoverability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=892","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: the limitation period in s. 51 of the SABS is not subject to discoverability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/hvd6x\" target=\"_blank\">Tomec v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company<\/a><\/em>, the Divisional Court held that the limitation period in s. 51 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/regu\/o-reg-403-96\/latest\/o-reg-403-96.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule<\/em><\/a> is not subject to common law discovery or the discovery provisions in s. 5 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/laws\/stat\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b\/latest\/so-2002-c-24-sch-b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Limitations Act<\/a>.\u00a0 It is a &#8220;hard&#8221; limitation period in that it runs from a fixed event, which is the refusal to pay the benefit claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Update! <a href=\"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1031\" target=\"_blank\">The Court of Appeal overturned this decision<\/a>.\u00a0 Discoverability doesn&#8217;t apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tomec v. Economical Mutual Insurance Company, the Divisional Court held that the limitation period in s. 51 of the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule is not subject to common law discovery or the discovery provisions in s. 5 of the Limitations Act.\u00a0 It is a &#8220;hard&#8221; limitation period in that it runs from a fixed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=892\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: the limitation period in s. 51 of the SABS is not subject to discoverability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[529,528,38,531,530],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hard-limitation-periods","tag-ontario-statutory-accident-benefits-schedule","tag-sabs","tag-statutory-accident-benefits-schedule-s-51","tag-tumescence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}