PRACTICE PROFILE
Todd’s practice is focused insurance related litigation. He has a particular interest and expertise in handling product liability, sports & recreation and professional indemnity claims. He also regularly provides coverage opinions and handles subrogated matters for insurers. Todd’s clients include a number of North American insurance companies, Lloyd’s syndicates and self-insured corporations.
Todd is the past President of The ARC Group Canada, a network of independent law firms across Canada focusing on the areas of insurance law and risk management. Alexander Holburn is the B.C. member of this affiliation.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Acts as counsel in British Columbia to one of Canada’s largest retail corporations, handling its occupier’s liability and property damage litigation.
- Provides ongoing errors and omissions advice to a leading North American insurance brokerage.
- Handled a number of class action proceedings in British Columbia, including several class actions involving national and bi-national issues, the most recent being the negotiation and implementation of a U.S. $300 million product liability settlement covering Canada and the United States
- Advises excess insurers and rental car companies on various issues arising out of the coverage for and defence of motor vehicle cases exceeding British Columbia’s mandatory $200,000 liability coverage.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Author, “A Guide to the Health Care Costs Recovery Act”, article for Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP Insurance law publications
- Speaker, BC Risk Insurance Managers Annual Meeting – Product Recall, April 2008
- Guest speaker, Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP Annual Marine Luncheon, May 2008
- Co-author, “Where Will You Be Sued?” (Choice of Jurisdiction Clauses in Insurance Policies) with Gary M. Nijman, Canadian Underwriter, November 2007
- Author, “The $1 Million Liability Cap in British Columbia: Practical Implications for Rental Car Companies Doing Business in British Columbia”, article for Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP Insurance E-alert, November 2007
- Co-author, “Foreseeability and Causation in Negligence Law as Explained by the Supreme Court of Canada: Resurfice Corp. vs. Hanke, 2007 SCC 7”, with Jeremy M. Poole and Bruno De Vita, article for Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP Insurance E-alert, February 2007
- Guest speaker, Jury Trials, Annual Canadian Insurance Claims Manager’s Association Conference, February 2007
- Speaker, Annual Marine Insurance Association of BC Seminar, November 2005
- Paper, “Limits of Liability in Marine Personal Injury and Cargo Claims”, November 2005
- Paper, “Anti-Subrogation Rule in Canada”, November 2005
- Speaker, Ivanhoe Cambridge Annual Risk Management Conference, July 2005
- Paper, Thin Skulls and Crumbling Skulls: Damages in a Personal Injury Action, 2004
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Canadian Bar Association, Member and Past Chair - Insurance Law Section; Member - Class Action and Maritime Sections
- Canadian Defence Lawyers, Member
- Vancouver Bar Association, Past President
