{"id":101,"date":"2004-03-31T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/?p=101"},"modified":"2004-03-31T17:27:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T22:27:50","slug":"doctored-surveillance-nets-3-million-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Doctored&#8221; Surveillance Nets $3 Million Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Insurers who have been shocked to see awards of punitive damages in the hundreds of thousands of dollars should count their blessings and be glad they&#8217;re not private investigation firms. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/on\/cas\/onsc\/2004\/2004onsc10763.html\" target=\"_blank\">copy of decision<\/a>) <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">In <em>Hordo v. Mrowiec<\/em>, the Superior Court was dealing with a claim against an investigation firm which had undertaken some surveillance of the plaintiff. The court found that this the defendant had &#8220;knowingly produced a false and doctored videotape and provided a false report about surveillance of the plaintiff&#8221;. The precise nature of the &#8220;doctoring&#8221; was not specified.<!--more--><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">The defendant didn&#8217;t defend the action, which might have been a bad mistake. The court awarded general damages of $1 million, special damages of $1 million and punitive damages of, yes, $1 million.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Perhaps most disturbing of all, to the egos of lawyers across the province, is that the plaintiff was self-represented.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurers who have been shocked to see awards of punitive damages in the hundreds of thousands of dollars should count their blessings and be glad they&#8217;re not private investigation firms. (copy of decision) In Hordo v. Mrowiec, the Superior Court &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=101\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damages"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}