Patrick Henry

Mr. Henry has substantial experience before the courts with most aspects of the insurance industry, 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 near the Saputo Soccer Stadium in 2011
• 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 cases of professional liability 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, or the rescission of an emphyteusis
• In 2007, representing the designing engineers as participant in the public hearings of the Commission of inquiry into the collapse of a portion of the de la Concorde overpass a year earlier.

Bar of Quebec: Disciplinary Committee (1991–); Past lecturer on civil procedure at the Quebec Bar School; past member, Civil Procedure Reform, and Image and Ethics Committees

Bar of Montréal: Best Practices Handbook Committee (2008–)

Canadian Bar Association

Mr. Henry is a regular lecturer on insurance law and civil and professional liability. He the author of several papers, such as:

• “L’impact des enquêtes publiques sur les procédures civiles”, in Colloque sur les organismes d’enquête, Actes de la formation juridique permanente 2009, volume 6, Canadian Bar Association — Quebec Division
• “Le mensonge : du polygraphe à la déchéance”, in Développements récents en droit des assurances, 2001, volume 147, Service de la formation permanente du Barreau du Québec
• “Analyse des procédés de preuve et de leur force probante”, in Les règles de preuve: Application pratique et analyse des plus récents jugements, Montréal, Insight, October 1995

He is also a coauthor of:

• Commercial Insurance Policies, Annotated, Thomson Reuters / Carswell, 1996 (looseleaf with continuing updating)
• Residential Insurance Policies, Annotated, Thomson Reuters / Carswell, 1994 (looseleaf with continuing updating)