Our experience includes:

• Acting, over the past decade, as counsel to two major Canadian insurance companies in numerous claims made under group disability and life insurance policies, as well as employment and related matters

• Acting as Ontario counsel for the insurers of a large multi-national air freight carrier in connection with cargo claims and in numerous property damage claims for both insurers and insureds

• Acting as general counsel in overseeing and co-ordinating outstanding litigation across Canada on behalf of a large U.K.-based insurer which has recently disposed of its Canadian group, life, property and casualty insurance businesses and pension administration activities

• Advising insureds with respect to directors and officers liability insurance

• Acting for Lloyd's of London in successfully staying the Canadian actions brought by the "Names"
  

We are also included on the panel of counsel used by the Lawyers Professional Indemnity Company in Ontario. We were appointed as Canadian legal representatives for the Institute of London Underwriters in 1994.

Recent Group Activities

Firm sponsors CLHIA
Sep 24-26 / Stikeman Elliott is sponsoring and participating at the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association's Legal Section Meeting in Quebec City.

Toronto lawyer quoted on Canadian class actions
Apr 18 / Alan D'Silva was quoted in the article "Canadian class action litigation beginning to resemble that of the United States" in Canadian Underwriter.

Introducing newly published Canadian Insurance Regulation Reporter
Partner Stuart Carruthers is the founder and editor-in-chief of Butterworths' new quarterly publication "Canadian Insurance Regulation Reporter", the first of its kind in Canada. Click here for a copy of the publication.

#1 in Cross-Border Litigation
Lexpert has named 10 Stikeman Elliott lawyers among Canada's premier cross-border litigators. The firm has more lawyers listed than any other firm in the Corporate Commercial, Class Actions and Securities area. 

E-Discovery & Document WEBCAST Available
On December 11, 2007, Stikeman Elliott's Litigation and Technology Groups presented a seminar entitled E-Discovery & Document Management. Request a copy of the material.

Insurance litigation expertise featured in Lawyers Weekly
Alan D'Silva is featured in a front page article on the Supreme Court of Canada's tougher stance on the causation requirement in tort cases, following a recent precedent ruling which clarified conflicting interpretations by lower court decisions of an important insurance law issue.