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Sixty Days: The Notice Rule Behind Every Ontario Snow Contract

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Since the Occupiers' Liability Amendment Act, 2020, no snow or ice injury claim in Ontario can proceed against a property or its snow contractor unless written notice is served within 60 days, and whoever receives it must pass it on. What that rule means for the winter contract you are about to sign, the visit log that decides the claim, and the sixty days after someone falls.

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