Overview

Patrick Henry is a partner in our Insurance Law Group. His practice focuses on civil litigation, civil and professional liability, and product liability law.

Patrick has pleaded before all judicial instances and appeal levels, including before the Supreme Court of Canada on four occasions.

Representative files and mandates

Patrick has substantial experience before the courts, including:

Numerous cases arising from fires in commercial or residential buildings, and involving all possible causes such as a defective equipment or human negligence

Construction-related matters, such as the collapse of the Concorde overpass, the collapse of the tunnel portal beams and louvre grids in the Ville-Marie Tunnel in 2011, and the collapse of a concrete parking lot near the Saputo Soccer Stadium in the same year

Defending multiple claims experts in disciplinary hearings before the Chambre de l’assurance de dommages

Defending insurers against the Autorité des marchés financiers, the regulatory authority on insurance matters in Quebec

Appearing in several professional liability cases involving notaries, lawyers and auditors

Appearing before the Supreme Court in various matters, such as the consequence of a conflict between an insurance proposal and the policy, and the termination of an emphyteutic lease

In 2007, representing design engineers as participants in the public hearings of the Commission of inquiry into the collapse of a portion of the de la Concorde overpass a year earlier

Practice Areas

• Civil Litigation
• Securities
• Insurance Law
• Personal Injury Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1974 (QC)