Insurance

An insurer's reputation for fairness and competence may be its most valuable asset. Harper Grey LLP lawyers have represented insurers and their insureds since the firm was founded in 1907 - we have a long, proven tradition of protecting that asset.

In 2007 and 2008 Lexpert Canadarated us as one of the Top 3 recommended firms for insurance law in British Columbia.  

The parties to a contract of insurance owe each other a duty of utmost good faith. The assistance of able, experienced counsel is vital in discharging that duty.

Harper Grey's longstanding commitment to insurers and their clients includes regularly participating the insurance industry’s educational programs, including in-house presentations at the major insurers and participation in the conventions, conferences and seminars of:

• Canadian Defence Lawyers
• Defence Research Institute
• Risk Insurance Managers Association
• Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association
• Aviation Insurance Association
• Insurance Brokers Association of British Columbia
• Credit Union Insurance Services Association of British Columbia

Members of our Insurance Law Group have lectured and written extensively on insurance law and have led insurance-related continuing legal education seminars for many years. Some of our lawyers also guest lecture at the Universtiy of British Columbia Faculty of Law on an annual basis.

Our clients rely upon us to give them advice which is fair, clear and reliable. When appointing counsel to represent their insureds, our clients can confidently say that they have served their clients well by placing them in capable hands.

Publications

• Tell them early, tell them often
• Utmost Good Faith
• Insurers Face Higher Costs Under New BC Health Care Legislation
• Harper Grey Insurance Law Seminar, May 2008
• Courts Siding with Insurers over Criminal Act Exclusion, InsuranceWest
• Firewalls protect mobile insurance bar by minimizing risks of disclosure
• "Swagger: Building the Business Risk Defence", Paper for the Canadian Defence Lawyers Association, Toronto
• Directors and Officers Liability
• "Addressing the Modern Multi-Peril Policy", presentation to the Insurance Brokers Association of British Columbia
• "When can you recover funds paid to an insured?"
• "Insurance Law Update in British Columbia", Annual Review of Law and Practice (Continuing Legal Education Sociey of British Columbia), Author, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
• "Inferences of Negligence: Res Ipsa Loquitor", Harper Grey Insurance Law Seminar
• "Expert Witnesses in Personal Injury Cases", presentation for Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia
• "Insurance Law Update in British Columbia - 2003", Annual Review of Law and Practice (Continuing Legal Education Sociey of British Columbia)
• "Insurance Law Update in British Columbia - 2002", Annual Review of Law and Practice (Continuing Legal Education Sociey of British Columbia)