Audrey Bolduc-Boisvert
LawyerAudrey Bolduc-Boisvert is a lawyer in the Insurance Law group at the firm's Québec City office. She focuses her practice on insurance law, compliance in the distribution of financial products and services, and civil and professional liability. She represents professionals, businesses and insurers before the civil courts. She practises law in French and English.
Audrey advises insurance industry stakeholders on various facets of insurance product distribution, including distribution without a representative. She is particularly interested in life, health and travel insurance matters, having worked in the field of individual and group disability insurance before joining the firm in the summer of 2018.
Audrey has written numerous articles on civil law, including how to determine damages and apportion liability. During her studies, she completed a semester abroad in France at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 where she studied comparative law. She also volunteered with the legal aid clinic at Université Laval.
She is active within the Québec City Bar, sitting on its committee for the promotion and use of dispute prevention and resolution methods since 2020 and its services to the public committee since 2021. She also sits on Université Laval’s discipline committee as an external member.
- Assisted with ensuring the compliance of the extended warranty and insurance programs of a Canadian telecommunication firm.
- Analyzed the legislative and regulatory framework that applies to an insurer with respect to protecting its clients’ personal information and meeting its obligations to the Autorité des marchés financiers.
- Represented an architect in penal proceedings to contest three statements of offence issued under the Building Act.
- Represented a valve and fitting manufacturer against various lawsuits relating to the legal warranty of quality.
- Represented a building inspector in a lawsuit filed by purchasers of a century-old building.
- Bar of Québec City:
- Community Services Committee, Member, since 2021
- Committee for Dispute Prevention and Resolution Processes, Member, since 2020
- Québec Association of Insurance Women, Member, since 2020
- Young Bar of Québec City, Member, since 2016
- Université Laval's Discipline Committee, Member, since 2022
- Co-author: “Employers and insurers: New rules on absence and disability management on the horizon”, November 11, 2024.
- Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision B c. X – Révision des dommages-intérêts punitifs : un nouveau précédent en matière de sévices sexuels” [Case comment – Review of punitive damages: a new precedent in sexual abuse cases], Éditions Yvon Blais, October 2024, EYB2024REP3796.
- Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision A c. B – La catégorisation du préjudice, la détermination des dommages non pécuniaires découlant d’un préjudice corporel et les critères fondant l’octroi de dommages-intérêts punitifs” (Case comment on A v. B), Repères, September 2022, EYB2022REP3506.
- Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision Ville de Montréal c. Acier Century inc. – Le partage de responsabilité lorsque le préjudice est causé par plusieurs personnes” (Case comment on City of Montréal v. Acier Century inc.), Repères, August 2022, EYB2022REP3486.
- Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision Acier Century c. Ville de Montréal – Les principes du partage de responsabilité dans le cadre de fautes contributoires” (Case comment on Acier Century v. City of Montréal), Repères, October 2020, EYB2020REP3163.
- Co-author: “Commentaire sur la décision Partner Reinsurance Company Ltd. c. Optimum Réassurance Inc. – La compétence internationale des tribunaux québécois en matière d’interprétation contractuelle” (Case comment on Partner Reinsurance Company Ltd. v. Optimum Réassurance Inc.), Repères, June 2020, EYB2020REP3079.
- Author: “The Post-Loss Investigation: the Insured’s Obligation to Come Clean”, August 9, 2018.
LL.B., Civil Law, Université Laval, 2015
International Profile: Semester of comparative law studies in France, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, 2013