
Valérie Lemaire
Lawyer, Partner - Quebec City
Valérie Lemaire practices in the areas of civil litigation, insurance law, and professional and medical liability.
She has developed special expertise in regulatory compliance issues in the insurance and financial products and services distribution areas, as well as in insurance of persons.
She frequently gives seminars accredited by the Chambre de l’assurance de dommages (Damage Insurance Regulatory Body) on topics concerning insurance law, professional and civil liability, and insurance regulations.
Education
Civil Law, LL.B., Université Laval, 1994
Rankings & Recognitions
- Chambers Canada 2024
- Best Lawyers in Canada 2024
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2023
- Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2023
- Chambers Canada 2023
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2023
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2022
- Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2022
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2022
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2021
- Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2021
- Excellence in Mentoring Award 2020 for Québec from The Advocates’ Society
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2021
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2020
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2020
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2020
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2019
- Benchmark Litigation Canada 2019
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2019
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2018
- Benchmark Canada 2018
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2018
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2017
- Benchmark Canada 2017
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2017
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2016
- Benchmark Canada 2016
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2016
- The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory 2015
- Benchmark Canada 2015
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2015
- The Best Lawyers in Canada 2014
The Best Lawyers in Canada 2013
The Best Lawyers in Canada 2012
LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell®, BV rating
Areas of Practice
- Access to Information
- Business Crime Insurance
- Class Actions
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Insurance
- Construction Law
- Construction Litigation
- Construction Risk
- Cyber-risk Insurance Policy
- Directors & Officers Liability
- Disciplinary and Professional Law
- Drafting and Interpretation of Insurance Policies
- Employment Practices Liability Insurance
- Financial Institutions and Financial Services Law
- General Liability
- Insurance
- Insurance Compliance
- Insurance Litigation
- Life Insurance
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Product Liability
- Product Risk
- Professional Liability
- Property Insurance
- Regulation, Compliance, and Regulatory Investigation (AMF, Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada)
- Regulatory Investigations
- Reinsurance
- Securities
Industries
Representative Work
Successfully defended an insurer and its insured against a personal injury claim for more than $2 million alleging carbon monoxide poisoning.
Successfully represented an insurer in an arbitration proceeding involving a claim to recover monies from a reinsurer.
Represents a supplier of concrete in defence against claims totalling several million dollars by owners of homes with damaged concrete foundations.
Advised an insurer on the revision of the wording in its policies.
Defended an enterprise against a multi-million dollar lawsuit following a factory fire.
Defence counsel in complex personal injury cases on a regular basis.
Acts on a regular basis for insurance firms and representatives in connection with regulatory investigations.
Obtained for a foreign insurer (life insurance and property and casualty insurance) the required licences to distribute insurance products in Quebec.
Advised an insurer with respect to its property and casualty insurance business including the establishment of a compliance program.
Publications
Articles
Other Publications
2017 – “Le privilège relatif au litige : la protection du processus judiciaire” (The litigation privilege: protecting the judicial process), in collaboration with Renée-Maude Vachon-Therrien, Assurance de dommages – Troisième Colloque, Éditions Yvon Blais, volume 26, 2017 (La Collection Blais)
2015 – “Contrat de réassurance: notions et principes” (Reinsurance policies: concepts and principles) and “Les ententes de réassurance” (Reinsurance agreements), in collaboration with Jean-François Gagnon, in Sébastien Lanctôt et al., Le contrat d’assurance de dommages et le contrat de réassurance: sujets choisis (Property and casualty insurance policies and reinsurance contracts: selected topics), Montréal, LexisNexis
2015 – “La portée de l’obligation de bonne foi de l’assureur dans le traitement des réclamations”, (The Scope of the Insurer’s Duty to Act in Good Faith in the Handling of Claims), in collaboration with Renée-Maude Vachon-Therrien, Assurance de dommages – Deuxième Colloque, Éditions Yvon Blais, volume 22, 2015 (La Collection Blais)
2012 – Contributor: “Legal Aspects of Doing Business in North America” (Section Quebec), Release 1 – 2012, Juris Publishing, Huntington, New York, 2012, p. QU-1
