Borden Ladner Gervais creates national insurance group

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP has created a national insurance corporate/regulatory group.

Crawford Spratt, Jill McCutcheon and Kelly Morris, all insurance law practitioners, have joined the firm. Spratt will serve as the national head of the group, McCutcheon as the group’s regional head, and Morris as a partner.

All three will be based out of Toronto. Grace Tam also joins Borden Ladner Gervais’ Toronto office to provide the group with regulatory and registration support.

The group’s regional heads include Christian Faribault (Montreal), Bruce Churchill-Smith (Calgary), Sean Muggah (Vancouver) and Jeremy Farr (Ottawa).

“The insurance industry is evolving with new market entrants and a trend towards consolidation,” said Bob Hutchison, partner and national business department leader. “Combined with the firm’s existing financial services group and extensive insurance litigation and coverage practice, our insurance corporate/regulatory group makes BLG a full service firm for insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries and other sector participants.”