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David H. Lauder
phone: 416.593.4411 xt.2316
fax: 416.593.5922
email: dlauder@duttonbrock.com
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David, a partner since 1998, has focused his practice on civil litigation including products and occupiers' liability claims, property loss, directors' and officers' liability, professional malpractice, and casualty claims. He has also been certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation.
He acts frequently on behalf of commercial retailers in both property and personal injury cases and sports related injuries. Recent trials and appeal work include the Occupiers' Liability decision in Kerr v. Loblaws, the ODSP deductibility decision in Moss v. Hutchinson, and a product liability claim arising from one of the largest food contamination cases in Canadian history.
Assistant
Mary Onysko
phone: 416.593.4411 xt.2350
email: monysko@duttonbrock.com
Law Clerk
Vicki Noftall
phone: 416.593.4411 xt.2303
email: vnoftall@duttonbrock.com
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Education
Mr. Lauder received an Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1987 and his LL.B. from Queen's University in 1990. He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1992.
Lectures
David is the editor of E-Counsel, Dutton Brock's quarterly electronic newsletter, and has participated in training seminars and conferences relating to numerous litigation and insurance topics.
"Claims involving Non-protected Defendants" at Ontario Bar Association Motor Vehicle Insurance Program, Presenter, November 2006
Dutton Brock Insurance Group, Presenter, Toronto Insurance Women's Association and Ontario Risk and Insurance Managers seminars:
"Adjuster's Reports and Waiver of Privilege" February 1999
"Valuating Future Wage Loss Claims" February 2000
"Competing Auto, Home and CGL Policies" March 2001
"Vicarious Liability Reviewed" April 2001
"Sexual Assault and the Vicarious Liability of Employers" May 2001
"Non-Protected Defendants and Bill 59: What the Comprehensive General Liability Insurer Needs to Know" January 2002
"Employer and Social Host Alcohol Liability" February 2002
"The Chamber of Automobile Insurance Secrets" March 2003
"Similar Fact Evidence" January 2005
"Mary Carter and Pierringer Agreements in Canada" January 2006
"C.S.I. Toronto - Civil Suit Investigation" January 2007
"The Single Grape Theory", January 2008
Publications
"No Duty Owed by Social Host - The Supreme Court Rules in Childs v. Desmoreaux", Canadian Insurance, Author June 2006, p. 47
"Innkeeper and Social Host Liability, The Risk of Party-giving", co-author with Brian Brock
David is a member of:
The Canadian Bar Association
The Toronto Lawyers Association
The Advocates' Society
The Medico-Legal Society of Toronto
The Defense Research Institute
The Canadian Defence Lawyers Association
The American Trial Lawyers Association
The Medico-Legal Society of Toronto
Editor and Chair of the Dutton Brock Trialbook Committee
Head of Dutton Brock Articling Committee (responsible for drafting Law Society mandated firm Education Plans for students-at-law) for five years (1998-2003)
Co-chair of Dutton Brock Articles and Publication Committee
Editor of "E-Counsel" Dutton Brock newsletter
Moss v. Hutchinson (2007), 85 O.R. (3d) 604; [2007] O.J. No. 2795 (July 16, 2007) (S.C.J)
Kerr v. Loblaws [2007] O.N.C.A. 371
Graham v. Jeon (Court File No: 02-CV-238754CM2, February 2007 jury trial)
J.M. Schneider v. Parmalat, [2005] O.J. No. 2273 (S.C.J.)
Hawkrigg v. Sears Canada (court File No. 000681, April 2004 jury trial)
Gerling Global v. Siskind Cromarty (2002), 59 O.R. (3d) 555 (S.C.J.)
Brooks v. Auto Club Insurance, [2001] O.J. No. 240 (S.C.J.)
Mahon v. Standard Life, [2000] O.J. No. 2042 (S.C.J.)
Monteiro v. Sears Canada (Court File no. 40172/96, May 1999 jury trial)
Glassman v. Honda Canada, [1996] O.J. No. 2771 (Gen. Div.); 29 O.R. (3d) 3593 (Gen. Div.); 33 O.R. (3d) 63 (Div. Ct.)
DeSimone v. Coluccio, [1996] O.J. No. 5472 (Gen. Div.)
Cartigenese v. Castoro, [1995] O.J. No. 142 (Gen. Div.)
Mr. Lauder is married, a father of two primary school-aged girls, and lives in Unionville, Ontario. In his younger days, David was a two-time All-Star with Kingston Voyageurs in the Metro Junior "A" hockey league and later captained the Queen's University varsity soccer team while attending law school.
He coaches girls soccer with the Markham Soccer Club and sits on the Executive and chairs the Discipline Committee of the Unionville Men's Hockey League.
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