Legal Affiliates

These law firms offer legal services to the life and health insurance industry. These firms are friends of the industry.

Interested in joining as a Legal Affiliate?
Please send your inquiry to affiliates@clhia.ca.

Beard Winter LLP is a Top 10 Ontario Regional Firm as recognized by Canadian Lawyer offering a full range of legal services. The firm’s insurance litigation group acts for many of Canada’s largest insurance companies and our attorneys are recognized by Lexpert and Best Lawyers for their expertise in personal injury litigation, insurance law, and long-term disability including critical illness and life policies. Our unwavering commitment to clients is the foundation of our history since 1964. Located in downtown Toronto, we are also preferred counsel for a wide variety of mid-market private and public corporations and sought after for our expertise in estates and trusts, real estate, employment law and commercial litigation. The Globe and Mail named the firm one of Canada’s Best Law Firms for 2023.

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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP For more than 150 years, Blakes has proudly served many of Canada’s and the world’s leading businesses and organizations. The Firm has built a reputation during that time as both a leader in the business community and in the legal profession – leadership that continues to be recognized to this day. We have more than 550 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London, Bahrain and Beijing, and associated offices in Al-Khobar and Shanghai. Serving a diverse national and international client base, our integrated office network provides clients with access to the Firm’s full spectrum of capabilities in virtually every area of business law. We have more than 550 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, New York, Chicago, London, Beijing and an office in Shanghai through our China Alliance. Serving a diverse national and international client base, our integrated office network provides clients with access to the Firm’s full spectrum of capabilities in virtually every area of business law.

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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP offers financial services clients the services of over 60 specialized lawyers working within a fully integrated national network of over 780 professionals. BLG's Investment Management and Financial Services lawyers have an unparalleled reputation in the Canadian financial services industry and provide a full-range of legal services to clients, which include managers, insurance companies and other financial institutions, service providers and distributors, both domestic and foreign.

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Cassels Brock is a leading provider of legal services to Canadian and international clients. With a complement of more than 200 lawyers, the firm offers a full range of sophisticated business transaction and advisory services. Our firm’s nimble platform allows us to work effectively with organizations of all sizes and types and to handle domestic and international engagements of every nature and complexity. Cassels Brock is a leading provider of legal services to Canadian and international clients. With a complement of more than 200 lawyers, the firm offers a full range of sophisticated business transaction and advisory services. Our firm’s nimble platform allows us to work effectively with organizations of all sizes and types and to handle domestic and international engagements of every nature and complexity. Our lawyers make it a point to understand their clients’ business objectives, listen to their needs and stay up-to-date on the issues that affect their industries and markets. Through creative strategies and proactive advice, we help to seize opportunities and overcome challenges.

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The lawyers of Davies Howe LLP are dedicated to tenacious advocacy, strategic solutions and service excellence. Davies Howe LLP has a broad litigation practice and a number of our lawyers work exclusively in the area of insurance defence. We have acted for many insurance companies, including life and disability insurers, for more than 30 years. Our insurance defence group helps our clients assess risk and develop sound strategies to ensure that their best interests are served. Our litigation team appears regularly before all levels of the Ontario Courts. When appropriate, we focus on early and efficient settlement of claims. We believe that resolving legal issues requires a close working relationship with clients and a responsive and common sense approach to finding solutions. To accomplish this, we work collaboratively, utilizing our individual and collective strengths for the benefit of each client. For more information, please contact David Cherepacha, Ava Kanner or David Fenicky at 416-977-7088.

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Dentons is designed to be different. The challenges that our clients are navigating and the opportunities they are advancing are changing at an accelerating pace. We are a law firm that embraces change and can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization. This is why Dentons is organized to offer more than legal insight; we help you find business solutions, in a seamless fashion, across the globe. You need lawyers who know your business and know how to mitigate your exposure. From dealing with consumers and competitors to meeting your regulatory commitments, Dentons partners with you to help you manage your own risk. We can also drive mediation, arbitration and litigation across liability, bankruptcies, tenders, market conduct exams and investigations, class action lawsuits and coverage claims. You also know that the flip side of risk is opportunity. Together, we can explore challenges and give you insights that help you to seize opportunities, whether you’re navigating local regulations or working on a global scale.

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Donati Maisonneuve is a boutique firm specializing in the fields of civil and commercial litigation, more specifically in insurance and liability law, access to information, construction and disciplinary law. Donati Maisonneuve provides its clients with a specialized state-of-the art and efficient personalized service reflecting the personalities of the members of its team. Donati Maisonneuve is a boutique firm specializing in the fields of civil and commercial litigation, more specifically in insurance and liability law, access to information, construction and disciplinary law. Donati Maisonneuve provides its clients with a specialized state-of-the art and efficient personalized service reflecting the personalities of the members of its team. The firm offers a more flexible organizational structure, better adapted to its clients, which are comprised of insurers, brokers, financial institutions, companies of all sizes, and individuals. This structure allows the firm to offer more personalized legal services at more advantageous costs.

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Fasken Martineau is a leading national business and litigation law firm in Canada. With over 650 lawyers in offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, New York, London and Johannesburg, we provide services to our clients in virtually all areas of the law, on a national and international basis.

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Langlois Lawyers’ Insurance Law group is an award-winning leader in the legal industry. With some thirty lawyers working in our Montréal and Québec City offices, our team is one of the largest in Canada. We represent a wide range of insurers, insurance funds, mutual insurance companies, brokers and risk managers. We have extensive experience in personal insurance, advising clients on insurance coverage matters and defending them in legal or arbitration proceedings. We advise on regulatory compliance matters and act in regulatory investigations, order notices and proceedings. We also offer tailor-made education sessions accredited by recognized organizations. Our group is known for the depth of its analysis, its flexibility and its efficiency. Clients value our high-level strategic involvement in complex insurance issues, as well as our effective management of small and large-scale claims. Our firm and our lawyers are regularly recognized in the most highly regarded legal directories. Chambers Canada 2024 recognizes Langlois Lawyers and two of its lawyers in the "Insurance: Dispute Resolution" category. As well, Best Lawyers in Canada recognizes five members of our Insurance Law group, while The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory recognizes four and Benchmark Litigation Canada seven.

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Lavery Our team practising in the distribution of financial products and services can advise you on planning and implementing any type of corporate transaction, including mergers, acquisitions, demutualizations, arrangements, funding transactions governed by regulation, etc. We also advise our clients on entering into relationships with other stakeholders in the financial sector, whether to form a strategic alliance, for the distribution of a product, reinsurance, outsourcing or otherwise. Our areas of specialization are financial regulation and disciplinary law. As such, we represent our clients before the regulatory and reviewing authorities and also regularly plead cases involving such matters before the courts and administrative tribunals. Many of these cases are in response to enforcement measures initiated by the authorities, such as investigations, search and seizures, complaints and the related litigation. Finally, we assist our clients in responding to public consultations on regulatory policies or draft regulations and in planning the requisite follow-up. We can therefore help you in any matter you are faced with to find the solution that best suits your needs and goals.

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McCarthy Tétrault LLP With offices in every major Canadian financial and business centre, McCarthy Tétrault is Canada's premier law firm. Our lawyers are based in Vancouver, Calgary, London, Toronto, Ottawa, Montréal and Québec. We also have an international presence with offices in New York City and London, England. With close to 800 highly skilled lawyers, McCarthy Tétrault has earned its reputation as one of Canada's most prestigious law firms.

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McMillan lawyers are recognized as leaders in Canadian and international professional directories including Lexpert, Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers Global Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers, Global Counsel 3000, International Financial Law Review 1000, Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, Global Competition Review and Lexpert/American Lawyer Media Top 500 Lawyers in Canada. Our industry-focused teams follow industry developments and participate in industry associations and events, enabling us to deliver sound practical legal advice informed by knowledge of our clients and their industries. By way of example, we have teams concentrating on the energy, oil and gas, mining, media and entertainment, automotive, health care and transportation sectors.

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Miller Thomson LLP is one of Canada’s largest national law firms, with more than 500 professionals working from Toronto, Vancouver, Whitehorse, Calgary, Edmonton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph, Markham and Montréal. The firm provides a complete range of business law, advocacy and personal legal services to Canadian and international corporations, entrepreneurs, institutions, governments and not-for-profit organizations.

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Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP is a leading law firm with a singular focus – your business. From Toronto, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa, Vancouver and New York, we advise our Canadian, U.S. and international clients on an array of domestic and cross-border legal issues. Our collaborative “one firm” approach draws on the expertise of over 400 lawyers to provide responsive, proactive and practical legal solutions driven by your business needs. For over 150 years, we’ve built a reputation for solving problems, removing obstacles, and providing the answers you need, when you need them. It’s law that works.

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Founded over a century ago, with offices in Edmonton and Calgary, Parlee McLaws LLP offers comprehensive legal advice and counsel to clients whose interests span a wide range of businesses, industries and jurisdictions. The firm is one of the largest regional law firms in Alberta, with over 100 lawyers who operate as an integrated unit in both major cities in the Province.

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Founded over 100 years ago, Robinson Sheppard Shapiro is an independent medium-sized law firm providing legal services and strategic advice. With some 40 litigators and paralegals, our Insurance Law Group is recognized as an industry leader in Quebec. We have made insurance law a specialty, including in the fields of life, disability, critical illness, credit and travel insurance. We advise and represent insurers in litigations arising from claims for insurance benefits, coverage issues, rescinded or lapsed policies, and privacy issues. The practice of insurance law is not ancillary to the firm: it is at the heart of our service offering and we have been building it for more than 40 years.

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Stewart McKelvey proudly celebrates over twenty years of innovative leadership as Atlantic Canada's first and largest regional law firm. With a distinguished heritage reaching back to Canada's confederation, our law firm has established an international reputation for generating results. More than 220 lawyers and 350 staff in our six locations have a single objective: the best results for our clients.

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A national firm of more than 485 lawyers, Stikeman Elliott is recognized for the sophistication of its business law practice. Stikeman Elliott is recognized as a leader in Canadian capital markets and in domestic and international M&A by industry league tables, and is ranked among Canada’s top business litigation practices by Canadian publisher, Lexpert. The firm also offers in-depth expertise in many industry sectors, including insurance, energy, mining, technology and outsourcing.

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Torys LLP is an international business law firm with more than 330 New York and Toronto lawyers. Our strength lies in working with clients on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and major litigation matters. In addition, the firm’s expertise in a wide range of other practice areas enables us to focus on the needs of our business clients. Our New York and Toronto lawyers work together to offer a unique wealth of talent, experience and seamless cross-border service to clients on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border and around the world.

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