Renée-Maude Vachon
Lawyer, Partner - Quebec City
Renée-Maude Vachon is a partner at the firm and practises in the insurance law group. Her area of expertise is general civil liability and professional liability, primarily in the fields of real estate and construction.
She advises her clients regarding the appropriate strategy to adopt in litigious matters and represents them before the courts. She pays particular attention to the specific needs of each individual client.
She is actively involved in the legal community and has written several articles on subjects related to her area of practice. Within the firm she is the partner responsible for recruiting students at our Quebec office.
Renée-Maude practises law in English and in French.
Education
LL.M., University of London, 2010
LL.B., Civil Law, Laval University, 2007
Rankings & Recognitions
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Insurance
- Construction Law
- Construction Risk
- Directors & Officers Liability
- Disciplinary and Professional Law
- General Liability
- Insurance
- Insurance Litigation
- Life Insurance
- Litigation and Dispute Resolution
- Product Liability
- Product Risk
- Professional Liability
- Property Insurance
- Real Estate Litigation
- Regulatory Investigations
- Reinsurance
Industries
Representative Work
Successfully represented professionals sued for liability while they carried out their contract.
Successfully represented contractors and professionals in construction and real estate disputes (design defects, malfeasance, breach of contract).
Represents insurance companies in matters related to coverage.
Regularly acts in litigation matters involving personal injury.
Regularly acts in litigation matters involving fire or major disasters.
Regularly acts in litigation matters involving conventional and legal guarantees.
Publications
Articles
- 2023 – Insurance in the era of climate change
- 2018 – Criminal Record of a Person Residing in the Home: a Factor Aggravating the Insurance Risk?
- 2016 – Inaction May Be Fatal to the Insured
- 2016 – A Recent Superior Court Decision Saves an Insurer’s Subrogatory Action
- 2015 – The Limit to the Insurer’s Subrogatory Action Against the Manufacturer
News
Other Publications
“Commentaire sur la décision W.F. c. Butzlaff : le contrôle des comportements inappropriés en ligne” (Case comment on W.F. v. Butzlaff: Controlling inappropriate online behaviour), Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, EYB2022REP3415, March 2022
“L’interprétation des polices d’assurance en 2018” (The interpretation of insurance policies in 2018), Développements récents en droit des assurances, Barreau du Québec, Éditions Yvon Blais, volume 451, 2018
“Le privilège relatif au litige: la protection du processus judiciaire” (The litigation privilege: protecting the judicial process), in collaboration with Valérie Lemaire, Assurance de dommages – Troisième Colloque, Éditions Yvon Blais, volume 26, 2017 (La Collection Blais)
“Commentaire sur la décision Lizotte c. Aviva, Compagnie d’assurances du Canada – La portée du privilège relatif au litige : la Cour suprême a tranché” (Case comment on the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Lizotte v. Aviva Insurance Company of Canada on the scope of the litigation privilege), Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, Montreal, January 2017, EYB2017REP2118
“Chronique – Les conséquences défavorables pour l’assuré inactif : la perte du bénéfice de l’assurance” (Negative Consequences for Unresponsive Insured: Loss of Benefit of Insurance) coauthored with Samuel Gagnon, Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, Montreal, September 2016, EYB2016REP2038
“Commentaire sur la décision Compagnie d’assurances Chartis c. SCE Électrique inc. – Le défaut de collaboration de l’assuré n’affecte pas le recours subrogatoire de son assureur“ (Case comment on Compagnie d’assurances Chartis v. SCE Électrique Inc. – the insured’s failure to cooperate does not affect the subrogatory right of action of the insured), co-authored with Catherine Bourget, Repères, Éditions Yvon Blais, Montreal, July 2016, EYB2016REP1982
Case comment on the decision Lizotte v. Aviva, Compagnie d’assurances du Canada – “L’opposabilité du privilège relatif au litige et du secret professionnel au droit d’enquête du syndic”
“The Limit to the Insurer’s Subrogatory Action Against the Manufacturer”, co-authored with Vincent de l’Étoile, Canadian Insurance Law Reporter, March 2015, No. 771, Wolters Kluwer CCH, 2015, p. 1
“Décisions récentes en matière d’acceptation des risques et de clauses d’exonération de responsabilité”, Éditions Yvon Blais, June 2014
“L’irrecevabilité du recours des suites d’une quittance donnée à un codébiteur solidaire ou in solidum : un risque pour le demandeur?”, Éditions Yvon Blais, En bref, September 2013
“Le droit québécois s’adapte aux réseaux sociaux”, by Renée-Maude Vachon-Therrien and Mathieu Fournier, Éditions Yvon Blais, En bref, July 2013
Case comment on the decision Loranger v. Lloyd’s Canada, compagnie d’assurances – “Les antécédents criminels en matière d’assurance habitation”
Case comment on the decision Chamouri v. Financière Manuvie – “L’attentat et le bénéficiaire”
Case comment on the decision Transamerica Vie Canada v. Cadrin – “L’interprétation de la notion d’invalidité totale au sens de la police d’assurance”
Case comment on the decision L.S. v. Axa Assurances Inc. – “La croyance réelle de l’assuré quant à son état de santé” (What the Insured Really Believes About His or Her State of Health)
Comment on the decision Jarry v. Industrielle Alliance, assurance auto et habitation inc. – “L’acceptation du risque moral lié aux activités illicites de l’assuré” (Acceptance of the Moral Risk Associated With the Illicit Activities of the Insured)
Case comment on the decision Gagnon v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America – “Mise en garde pour l’assureur en assurance invalidité” (A Warning for Disability Insurers)
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