March 11, 2021 - 7:00 AM
An "unfortunate misunderstanding" almost left a Thompson senior $452,000 out of pocket after her insurance company refused to pay up when her house burned down.
Luckily, for the 61-year-old Ashcroft woman, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Leonard Marchand ruled that evidence presented in the case tipped the scales "ever so slightly in her favour."
According to a Mar. 3 decision, the case centres around an Ashcroft property Sharla Dubroy owned but didn't live in.
When the home was destroyed by a fire in January 2019, Dubroy's insurance company refused to pay-up saying the contract was void because she failed to inform them that her brother had moved out of the home and her son and daughter-in-law had moved in.