Ruth Veilleux
Partner

Ruth Veilleux practices with the firm’s Litigation, Insurance and Professional Liability Law group.

She focuses her practice on insurance law, professional liability, construction law, civil liability, and transportation law.

Ruth is regularly called upon to plead matters of insurance law, professional liability and transportation law before the Superior Court or the Quebec Court of Appeal.

She also has been called upon to represent important clients in their defence of class action suits which has enabled her to develop expertise in this field.

• Construction Law
• Insurance Law
• Civil and Commercial Litigation

• LL.B., Université Laval, 1990

• Member of the Quebec Bar
• Member of the Canadian Bar Association
• Member of the Association des Femmes d’Assurance de Montréal (AFAM)
• Chair of Civil Litigation and Insurance Section, Quebec division, Canadian Bar Association (2008 to 2010)
• Member of the Fonds d’indemnisation du Barreau du Québec (2010 to 2017)
• Co-chair of the Legislation Committee of the Association des Femmes d’Assurance de Montréal (AFAM) (2008 to 2016)
• Member of the Executive Committee of Soutien O sinistréS (SOS) (a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide assistance to disaster victims)

• August 2017
  "Un survol de la Loi sur l’assurance automobile et ses effets sur le droit commun" in Commentaires sur le droit des assurances (3rd ed.)
• June 2013
  Assurance de dommages, JurisClasseur, Collection Thema (co-author)
• April 2013
  Contrats nommés, LexisNexis (JurisClasseur) (co-author)
• September 2011
  Historic of the new IBC’s form entitled “Commercial General Liability Policy”
• August 2011
  "Le nouveau formulaire de la police d'assurance responsabilité civile des entreprises (« CGL ») du Bureau d'assurance du Canada" in Commentaires sur le droit des assurances (2nd ed.)
• December 2005
  Les derniers développements concernant l'obligation de défendre de l'assureur
• June 2005
  Caractère indemnitaire de l'assurance de dommages

• April 23, 2015
  "Les aspects fondamentaux de l’évaluation du préjudice corporel"

• Recognized by Canadian Legal Lexpert^® Directory, 2021 edition, as one of the most recommended insurance lawyers