Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Jamieson Halfnight conducts a specialty insurance and reinsurance litigation practice with particular emphasis on complex commercial disputes. His typical cases involve coverage advice and defence, third-party defence or subrogation in property insurance disputes, fraud and arson, CGL including product liability, fidelity insurance, professional and executive risk coverages, and excess and reinsurance. A highly experienced trial and appellate counsel, he handles cases in the superior and appeal courts of Ontario and other Canadian provinces, and in the Supreme Court of Canada.

A former director of the Advocates Society, chairing its Insurance Committee, Jamieson is a member of various insurance-related organisations and has taught the Bar Admission Course in civil litigation. He has lectured and published widely on insurance and litigation subjects, including speaking at or chairing conferences for the Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School, Federated Press, the Canadian Institute, Insurance Bureau of Canada and the IAAI.

Jamieson graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University (BA, 1971). He obtained his LLB from the University of Toronto (Dean's Key winner, 1974) and his LLM from the University of London, England (1975). He was called to the Ontario bar in 1977. For years he has been honoured with Lexpert's Most Frequently Recommended designation in commercial insurance and has been named as one of Canada's Leading 500 Lawyers (one of only 20 in commercial insurance and product liability).