Chris McCormack

About Chris McCormack

Chris McCormack defends insurance claims from SBA's Toronto office. Most of the work falls into four streams: statutory accident benefits, disputes between insurers over priority and loss transfer, motor vehicle injury claims, and occupier's liability. There's an affirmative side too, where McCormack sues to get back accident benefits that were paid out because of fraud or wilful misrepresentation.

Insurance defence has been the focus since the 2016 call to the Ontario bar, which followed a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2015. Years earlier, McCormack had finished an MA at McGill University in 2001. Chris went to Thomas Gold Pettingill once articling was done, and that firm announced McCormack's partnership in January 2022.

The advocacy runs from the Licence Appeal Tribunal and private arbitration all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada, with the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal in between. Earlier on, McCormack also appeared at the Financial Services Commission of Ontario. Recent files include a 2024 priority dispute between Dominion and Wawanesa heard by a private arbitrator, and the Landa matter, where McCormack acted for Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company on a leave application that the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed with costs in October 2025. McCormack is a member of Canadian Defence Lawyers.