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McCarthy Tétrault
66 Wellington Street West
Suite 5300, TD Bank Tower Box 48
Toronto ON M5K 1E6
Canada

Work Department

Insurance: Dispute Resolution

Position

William’s practice includes the resolution of insurance coverage disputes, reinsurance disputes and complex general liability claims. He is a certified Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Ontario. He has acted for numerous clients in connection with insurance coverage disputes including directors’ and officers’, general liability, cyber, fidelity, property, life, construction, commercial, and environmental coverage matters. His specialisation also includes Alternate Dispute Resolution, as a result, he acts as counsel in numerous mediations, and regularly speaks and teaches about ADR.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Insurance

McCarthy Tétrault’s insurance practice is well-weighted between contentious and non-contentious work, with extensive experience in regulatory matters, corporate transactions, demutualizations, securities and dispute resolution. The group counts a broad range of industry participants among its clients, including insurers, reinsurers, brokerages, Insurtech companies and insured corporations, and is frequently involved in complex, multi-jurisdictional mandates. Regulatory and transactional insurance specialist Nancy Carrollknows what is important to regulators’ and co-heads the group together with Hartley Lefton, who also specializes in transactional, commercial, governance and regulatory insurance work — both are based in Toronto. On the contentious side, insurance litigators William Scott and Aidan Cameron are recommended in Toronto and Vancouver, respectively. Hovsep Afarian recently joined Lax O’Sullivan Lisus Gottlieb LLP.