Insurance

Industry-Focused Advisory and Dispute Resolution

Whether enforcing policy rights or defending against substantial claims, strategic legal counsel is essential to navigating contested insurance claims and disputes. Our firm provides end-to-end capabilities across the entire claim lifecycle, from advising on initial indemnity entitlement and pre-action exposure to vigorously pursuing or defending insurance matters through court litigation, arbitration, or alternative dispute resolution (ADR).  

We provide trusted legal support to a diverse client base, including domestic and international insurers, reinsurers, financial institutions, insurance brokers, loss adjusters, corporate policyholders, business owners, and individual claimants. 

Core Areas of Practice

Policy advisory, coverage opinions and claims evaluation

Delivering clear, definitive legal advice and assessments for policyholders and insurers on policy terms, coverage, scope of indemnity, material non-disclosure, misrepresentation, condition breaches, dual insurance, subrogation rights and overall claim viability. 

Advising generally on potential causes of action, formulating early-stage claim strategies, and leading pre-action negotiations to achieve commercial settlements, while managing urgent court remedies before formal proceedings escalate, including pre-action discovery, freezing orders, summary judgment applications. 

Representing insurers, corporate insureds and individual claimants in court-annexed mediation, domestic arbitration as well as facilitating expert determination and structured negotiations to resolve complex policy, casualty, and liability disputes efficiently without prolonged litigation. 

Robustly advocating for clients in trial and appellate courts across complex insurance related disputes, subrogation recovery, policy repudiations, public/product liability, statutory claims, major property and business interruption losses, and fraudulent claim defences. 

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