Lawyer Profile
Roderick S. W. Winsor
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Roderick Winsor is a senior partner and head of Blaneys' Aviation Law Group. He has concentrated on complex and multi-jurisdictional litigation in Canada and the United States involving aviation and marine, technology, product liability, conspiracy and pollution claims acting for claimants, government, insurers, and business.
He has been involved in many high profile aviation and marine cases such as claims arising out of:
He has represented families of victims and survivors of various small aircraft crashes.
Rod acted for an international airline in a year-long trial involving allegations of conspiracies relating to bribes to high government officials.
He has also written and lectured widely. He is the co-author of The Insurance Act of Ontario Annotated, published by Butterworths. He is the author of Good Faith in Canadian Insurance Law published by Canada Law Book and Implied Obligation of Good Faith in Contract published by Carswell.
He has published over 30 papers relating to topics such as Multi-jurisdictional and Mass Tort Litigation, Class Actions, Crown Duty of Care, Regulatory Negligence, Punitive and Compensatory Damages, and Causation.
Rod is frequently sought out by the media to comment on victim compensation relating to international airline disasters, including most recently:
Completed a year-long trial involving allegations of conspiracies relating to bribes to high government official
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1975 (ON)