Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory

Gowling WLG’s Insurance Group brings together a wealth of knowledge and experience from across Canada to deal with laws, policies and practices affecting the Canadian financial services industry. We are legal advisers to a wide range of industry participants, including both foreign and domestic financial institutions, property and casualty insurers, life insurers, brokers and agents, third-party administrators, government departments, industry associations, and regulators.

The success of our award‑winning group is based on more than a century of experience representing the insurance industry, combined with a persistent, results-driven approach and an innovative use of technology.

As the largest group of its kind in Canada, our comprehensive services for the insurance industry include.

• Defence, ranging from personal injury claims to E&O and D&O claims to class actions
• Coverage, including opinions and litigation
• Corporate commercial and regulatory, ranging from purchase and sale of insurance companies and brokers to product development, distribution and compliance
• Subrogation claims
  
  

We work frequently with regulators to obtain approvals and letters of comfort relating to innovative structures and new products. We also have extensive experience dealing with the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and the provincial regulators with respect to the incorporation and institution of insurers, licensing and other regulatory issues.