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We are your trusted advisor in the insurance industry. We help clients navigate business and regulatory challenges and resolve disputes.
We provide regulatory, transactional and corporate advice to insurers, reinsurers, agents, brokers and managing general agents. We also defend complex liability claims of all types for insurers and give coverage advice.
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Overview

Our team knows the insurance industry. We help insurers and their insureds understand and manage their legal risk in all areas of their business. We efficiently and cost-effectively handle all types of insurance claims and disputes including coverage and liability defence in all major classes of insurance.

We have extensive experience with the following classes of insurance: property, casualty, life and disability, critical illness, accidental death and dismemberment, travel, creditor, commercial liability, construction, auto, aviation, marine, product liability, E&O, D&O, specialty, technology, surety, warranty and reinsurance. Our firm has acted as counsel in many leading cases on insurance, including numerous Supreme Court of Canada decisions. Our lawyers are repeatedly recognized as leaders in the field and regularly speak and write on insurance topics.

We regularly act for insurers in defending large and complex losses related to fire, property, construction, oil and gas, commercial and industrial operations, transportation, aviation, marine and product liability. We are experts in handling protracted multi-party and multi-action disputes. We understand litigation and negotiation challenges and strategies and tactics involved in resolving such claims. We make it our mission to understand the technical details of complex claims and the insureds business. We identify and work collaboratively with leading experts to develop the type of expert evidence that wins cases.

Our insurance professionals are skilled in litigation project management and we will handle your insurance matters in a manner compliant with your company’s reporting, budgeting and e-billing systems. We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with our insurance clients and their insureds to meet their respective business and legal objectives. We are committed to providing reliable, high quality and high value advice and representation on every file we handle.

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Sound advice and representation across the insurance industry. 

Achievements

  • Ranked nationwide in Insurance: Dispute Resolution, Chambers Canada 2024 to 2026
  • Ranked nationwide in Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory, Chambers Canada 2017 to 2026
  • Recognized nationwide in Insurance Law, The Globe and Mail 2022 to 2026
  • Ranked nationwide in Insurance, The Legal 500 Canada 2018 to 2026
  • Recognized in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Litigation: Commercial Insurance, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2020 to 2026
  • Recognized in Insurance Law, The Best Lawyers in Canada 2020 to 2025
  • Recommended in Insurance & Reinsurance, Lexology Index 2018 to 2024
  • ”Clients Best Interest at Heart”, Chambers Canada 2016

Team

Primary Contacts
  • Koker Christensen, Partner | CO-LEADER, FINANCIAL SERVICES, Toronto, ON, +1 416 868 3495, [email protected]
  • Sylvie Bourdeau, Partner | Corporate/Commercial, Montréal, QC, +1 514 397 4388, [email protected]
  • Peter J. Pliszka, Partner | CHAIR, LIFE SCIENCES LITIGATION | CHAIR, PRODUCT LIABILITY & INSURANCE GROUP, Toronto, ON, +1 416 868 3336, [email protected]
  • Alex Kotkas, Partner | Managing Partner, Alberta Region, Calgary, AB | Tsuut'ina, AB, +1 403 261 5358, [email protected]
  • Michael Parrish, Partner | Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4863, [email protected]
  • Jonathan Lim, Partner | Co-Leader, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Vancouver, BC, +1 604 631 4823, [email protected]
Koker Christensen Toronto Lawyer Koker Christensen Partner | CO-LEADER, FINANCIAL SERVICES Toronto, ON +1 416 868 3495
Sylvie Bourdeau associée/partner Montréal Sylvie Bourdeau Partner | Corporate/Commercial Montréal, QC +1 514 397 4388
Peter J Pliszka Toronto Lawyer Peter J. Pliszka Partner | CHAIR, LIFE SCIENCES LITIGATION | CHAIR, PRODUCT LIABILITY & INSURANCE GROUP Toronto, ON +1 416 868 3336
Alex Kotkas, Partner | Managing Partner, Alberta Region Alex Kotkas Partner | Managing Partner, Alberta Region Calgary, AB Tsuut'ina, AB +1 403 261 5358
Michael Parrish, Partner | Litigation and Dispute Resolution Michael Parrish Partner | Litigation and Dispute Resolution Vancouver, BC +1 604 631 4863
Jonathan Lim, Partner | Co-Leader, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Jonathan Lim Partner | Co-Leader, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Vancouver, BC +1 604 631 4823

Experience

  • Quandri scales enterprise customer contracting for leading insurance brokerages, [Deal - Quandri Technologies Inc.], Quandri Technologies scales enterprise AI contracting with leading insurance brokerages.
  • Acera Insurance Services Ltd. and Navacord Corp. merge to form one of Canada’s largest privately held insurance, employee benefits and wealth advisory firms, [Deal - Acera Insurance Services Ltd.], Acera Insurance Services Ltd. and Navacord Corp. merge to form one of the largest privately held insurance, employee benefits and wealth advisory firms in Canada.
  • Mode Insurance Services acquisition expands SPG Canada’s offering, [Deal - Mode Insurance Services Ltd.], Landmark expansion in the insurance industry
  • Co-operators closes the acquisition of Agence d’Assurances Montcalm Inc., [Deal - Co-operators Group Limited], Acquisition of Agence d’Assurances Montcalm Inc. by Co-operators.
  • UV Insurance completes acquisition of a closed block of insurance contracts from BMO Insurance, [Deal - ], UV Insurance acquires a closed block of insurance contracts.
  • Groupe Financier AGA acquires Sheldon Goldberg Insurance, [Deal - Groupe Financier AGA], Acquisition of Sheldon Goldberg Insurance by Groupe Financier AGA.
  • Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited acquires Encore Insurance Services Inc., [Deal - Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited], Leading provider of insurance, risk management, and consulting services acquires Canadian retail insurance brokerage.
  • Novacap acquired Consilium Insurance, [Deal - Novacap], Acquisition of Consilium Insurance by Novacap.
  • Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited acquires Dawson & Keenan Insurance Ltd., [Deal - Arthur J. Gallagher Canada Limited], Leading provider of insurance, risk management, and consulting services acquires Canadian retail insurance brokerage.

Knowledge

  • Key Product Liability Cases and Developments – 2025 Overview, 2/12/2026
  • Insurance Regulatory Year in Review and 2026 Outlook, 12/18/2025
  • Trends in Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI) in North American Private M&A, 10/2/2025
  • Global Spotlight on Canada's Financial Regulatory System, 8/18/2025
  • Insurance Regulatory Year in Review and 2025 Outlook, 1/31/2025
  • Federal Minister of Health Issues Letter About Canada Health Act, 1/17/2025
  • OSFI Issues Updates for Mortgage Qualifying Rate, Culture Risk and Funding, 11/25/2024
  • Indemnitees Beware: B.C. Court of Appeal Confirms That Covenants to Insure May Supersede a Duty to Indemnify, 11/21/2024
  • Waivers in the Online Wilderness: Court Decision Highlights the Risks of a Digital Waiver of Liability, 8/6/2024
  • On the Right Path: New E-Bike Regulations in British Columbia, 4/24/2024

Events

  • Insurance Nerd Day Webinar, 8/28/2024
  • Review of Important Decisions in 2023, 1/10/2024
  • Reform of the act respecting land use planning and development and new authorities, 6/7/2023
  • Litigation in the Age of the Court of Public Opinion, 5/10/2023
  • Artificial intelligence: Business opportunities and legal issues, 5/4/2023
  • Webinar: Insurance Nerd Alert!, 8/12/2021
  • Insurance Regulatory Law Update, 5/30/2018
  • Tax Roundup for Financial Institutions: What You Need to Know for 2018, 2/7/2018
  • Fasken Martineau Automotive Summit, 9/29/2015
  • Fasken Martineau Symposium 2013 - Vancouver, 10/30/2013

News

  • Fasken Partner Christian Trépanier Named Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, 1/22/2026
  • Johan Coertze Joins Fasken's Partnership in Corporate and Commercial Practice, 1/16/2026
  • Five Fasken Partners Recognized in Who's Who Legal Thought Leaders: Global Elite 2022, 12/30/2021
  • Fifty-Seven Fasken Lawyers are Recognized in the 2022 Edition of Legal 500 Canada, 11/11/2021
  • Fasken Receives Three LMG Life Sciences Awards 2021, 9/23/2021
  • Fasken Partner Appointed to the South African Ombud Council Board, 5/25/2021
  • Canadian Press quotes David Kitchen in an article on how COVID has impacted sports insurance within the Canadian sport system, 9/24/2020
  • Forty-Two Fasken Lawyers Ranked in 2020 Edition of Legal 500 Canada, 11/19/2019
  • Fasken’s Litigators Listed in Benchmark Litigation Canada 2019 Guide, 3/29/2019
  • Seventy-Eight Fasken lawyers recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Canada 2018, 12/7/2018

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