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Founded in 1963 under the presidency of Mrs Mildred Jones, The Massachusetts Association of Insurance Women, Inc (MAIW) is governed by a committee of direction, composed of the leaders, the ex-officio president and our head in the Association canadienne des femmes d'assurance (A.C.F.A.).

Purposes of MAIW is:

-to encourage, promote and coordinate practical and instructive programs with a view to augmenting knowledge of his members in insurance;

-to encourage a frank fidelity and maintain amicable relations between his members;

-to sensitize his members at needs and necessities of their colleagues.

Because of the support of dozens of voluntary implicated in various committees, to their dynamism and their energy, the MAIW is an association in constant evolution.


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Legal Columns

Analysis of an insurer's duty to defend in the wake of the Progressive Homes decision

by Laurence Gévry-Fortier,
Norton Rose Canada

This Legal Column was published in the january 2012’s Edition of MAIW’s Bulletin


A little over a year ago, we discussed the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment in Progressive Homes Ltd. v. Lombard General Insurance Co. of Canada.¹ We now wish to examine two recent decisions that have discussed this case and confirmed its applicability in Quebec civil law.

Lombard du Canada c. Mont-Tremblant (City)²
Facts and Judgment in the first instance


Exploitation agricole et forestière des Laurentides inc. ("Exploitation") owned a number of lots located on both sides of Route 117 in St-Jovite, a municipality that now forms part of the City of Mont-Tremblant (the "City"). In January 1995, the City notified Exploitation of its intention to rezone the lots for commercial and industrial. Despite Exploitation's opposition, the by-law effecting it was adopted on April 26, 1999. Exploitation responded by filing a motion against the City in October 1999 in an attempt to nullify the by-law.

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