Keith Sashaw: Insurance reforms should include proportional liability

In light of the provincial government’s decision to review insurance coverage and the handling of claims by ICBC, it’s high time to revisit joint and several liability — a long-contested legal principle that holds individual parties equally responsible for damages regardless of their share of liability.
Under the current rules of joint and several liability, if a building were to fail as a result of faulty work, and the contractor responsible for 90 per cent of that work was un