ExperiencePractitioner in the field of Civil Litigation focusing on insurance-related matters. Experience at all levels of Ontario Courts. Industry experience as in-house counsel with an insurance company dealing with commercial insurance, large loss exposures, including products and general liability. Trained in Arbitration and Mediation.Areas of concentrationProperty and Casualty; Large Loss/Catastrophe Litigation; Contract and Coverage Disputes & Commercial Litigation; Personal Injury and Motor Vehicle Litigation; Subrogation; Equipment Failures, Reinsurance, Environmental; Products Liability; Professional Negligence; Errors and Omissions; Arson; Fraud Claims and Construction.MembershipsLaw Society of Upper Canada; Canadian Bar Association; Canadian Defence Lawyers; Defense Research Institute; Advocates’ Society; Toronto Lawyers Association; and Osgoode Society.Founding member, Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society.EducationJ.D., University of Toronto, 1976; B.A. (Hons.), Queen’s University, 1973. Arbitrators' Institute of Canada courses, Parts I and II; Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Diploma, Award Writing Examination in International Arbitration (2012)Called to the BarOntario, 1978

Commercial Insurance, Commercial Litigation; Large Loss Exposures, including Special Risks, Products and General Liability, Coverage, Subrogation, Personal Injury, Property, Fire & Environmental Losses, Reinsurance and most Personal and Commercial Insurance Lines.