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Corporate negligence

By Occasional Contributors | 3 Minutes Read April 26, 2019

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.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Employee Relations, Employment Standards, Health and Safety / Corporate negligence, director liability, Duty of care, employment law, personal liability

By Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor | 3 Minutes Read December 23, 2016

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
… Continue reading “Top 10 most read Inside Internal Controls posts 2016 & Season’s Greetings”

Article by Marie-Yosie Saint-Cyr, LL.B. Managing Editor / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Payroll, Privacy / advertising violations, Corporate negligence, cyber risk, director liability, Employee privacy, internal audit, Internal Controls, Pension and benefit plan, PIPEDA data breach, privacy tort, Property tax rebate, Provincial and territorial 2016 budget, Registered charities, risk, risk management, unpaid wages, victims of cyberbullying

By Occasional Contributors | 4 Minutes Read January 20, 2016

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.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Business, Finance and Accounting, Not for Profit, Payroll / Corporate negligence, direct supervisory role, directors' liability, Due diligence, employment law, Human Resources, independent tort, liability of an executive officer of a corporation, personal liability, personal liability for torts, safety and environmental legislation, standard of care

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