416.860.0001

Our Toronto law firm’s Professional Liability Group has experience in all aspects and phases of professional liability issues, ranging from risk management through to dispute resolution. We have represented professionals in numerous fields, including:

• Accountants and Auditors
• Adjusters
• Architects
• Chiropractors
• Directors and Officers
• Engineers
• Financial Planners/Advisors
• Health Care Practitioners
• Home Inspectors
• Insurance Agents and Brokers
• Interior Design Professionals
• Lawyers
• Nurses
• Private Investigators
• Real Estate Agents and Brokers
• Receivers and Trustees
• Veterinarians

1.    Litigation

We act on a full range of matters that involve professional liability exposures, including those involving design, manufacturing, construction, inspection, and maintenance errors, pollution exposures, disciplinary procedures, quasi-criminal allegations, inquests, employment practices, and libel and slander. Some of our files involve class actions that are extremely complex, with highly technical issues, voluminous documentary productions, and extensive damage claims.

2.    Risk Management

We have given numerous “smell-the-coffee" seminars to our clients and professional organizations. We proactively assist in reviewing and drafting contract wordings and exculpatory clauses, and thereafter negotiate the wordings of contracts with the involved parties on given projects. We represent professionals in investigations and disciplinary hearings. Throughout, our skilled negotiators explore and utilize alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes to minimize the financial, reputational, and time impact of these processes on our clients. Finally, we also assist insurers in drafting policy wordings, special endorsements, and exclusions for their various program coverages.

• Doug McInnis

  416-860-0033

  dhmcinnis@mccagueborlack.com
• Kim Duong

  416-860-8374

  kduong@mccagueborlack.com
• Peter F. Yaniszewski

  416-860-0037

  pfyaniszewski@mccagueborlack.com