Hélène Maurice

Lawyer, Associate

Expertise

Insurance Law

Language

English, French

Office

Montréal

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Hélène Maurice is an associate in our Insurance Law Group. Her practice focuses on insurance litigation, more specifically on general torts matters. This has allowed her to gain experience in several areas, such as construction defects and bodily injury cases.

Hélène has taken charge of numerous litigation files concerning the liability of insureds, businesses and manufacturers. She also assists senior lawyers with major cases.


Honours

  • Dean’s List for Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law (2019)
  • Spiegel Sohmer Award for the Tax and Commercial Law course (2019)
  • Adolphe-Mailhot Award (Bar of Montreal) for the second-highest grade in the second year of her bachelor’s degree (2018)
  • De Grandpré Chait Award for the Business Law course (2018)


Bulletins

Sale Made at Your Own Risk: Is It Really Without Legal Guarantee?

16 May 2022

The Honourable Steve J. Reimnitz of the Superior Court recently revisited the rules regarding fraud and the warranty for latent defects in the case of St-Pierre c. Benoit, 2021 QCCS 5491. The Facts In 2015, the plaintiffs purchased a property from the defendant built by the latter in 1993–1994. This contract was concluded following the […]

What Is an Interruption of Prescription?

4 October 2021

Ballard c. Ville de Gatineau, 2021 QCCS 3695, recently rendered by the Superior Court, deals with the effect of the recognition of a right by a defending party on extinctive prescription. The parties’ arguments The case originated from the issuance of two infraction notices given by the City of Gatineau following embankment work carried out […]


Education

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

Université de Montréal

2019


Call to Bar

Quebec

2020