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Alberta Court of Appeal confirms that directors may be held personally liable for injuries sustained in a workplace incident

The Alberta Court of Appeal recently revisited the question of directors’ personal liability for injuries sustained in a workplace incident.

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Top 10 most read Inside Internal Controls posts 2016 & Season’s Greetings

Top 10 most read Inside Internal Controls posts 2016We are signing off with a list of the top 10 most read Inside Internal Controls posts 2016.
Privacy issues and director’s liability seem to have been hot topics this year with several blog posts on the topics making it on the list.

The top 10 most read Inside Internal Controls posts 2016

  1. Director’s liability for corporate negligence, Philip A. Carson, Calgary, Miller Thomson LLP
  2. Hello my name is [redacted]: Employee privacy trumps employer requirement for surnames on name tags, Douglas Judson, McCarthy Tétrault
  3. Internal audit and cyber risk, Norman D. Marks, CPA, CRMA
  4. Health Canada is cracking the whip on advertising violations, Christelle Gedeon, Ph.D. and Ingrid E. VanderElst, Ph.D., Fasken Martineau
  5. Registered charities get ready to submit applications for Ontario property tax rebates, Apolone Gentles, JD, CPA,CGA, FCCA, Bsc (Hons)
  6. New PIPEDA data breach regulations proposed, Kirsten Thompson, McCarthy Tétrault’s Cybersecurity, Privacy
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Director's liability for corporate negligence

Plaintiffs often cast the net broadly to capture every party with assets or insurance capable of satisfying a potential judgment. Directors are often named as defendants in claims related to the negligence of the companies they oversee.

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