Maude Lafortune-Bélair
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Maude Lafortune-Bélair
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Office Montréal
- Phone 514 470 1453
- Fax 514 221 3706
- [email protected]
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Legal Administrative Assistant
Patricia Le Caroff
514 470 1454
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Profile
Maude joined WT Montreal in 2025 after practicing for over 15 years at a major law firm in Quebec.
With expertise in civil liability, product liability, and professional liability, she has built a strong reputation representing manufacturers, suppliers, and vendors in product liability matters, including those related to design, recalls, or manufacturing defects. Maude also provides strategic and risk management advice to clients and frequently handles complex insurance coverage mandates.
Maude practices in the areas of air, rail, and land transportation. She is also active in class actions, representing insurers, manufacturers, healthcare institutions, and municipalities.
Education
Quebec Bar 29, 2009
LL.B., University of Montreal, 2007
Professional Memberships & Affiliations
Member of the Association des femmes en assurance de Montréal
Member of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society and executive member of the Canadian chapter
Member of DRI Defense Research Institute
Publications
« Le rappel de produits au Québec : fondements légaux et perspectives pratiques », dans Qualité + Sécurité des biens, Actes du colloque de la Fondation Claude Masse du 9 novembre 2023, sous la direction de Laurence Bich-Carrière et Gabriel-Arnaud Berthold, Éditions Yvon Blais, Février 2025
« Prescription extinctive », dans Jurisclasseur Québec, Preuve et prescription, Lexis Nexis
« L’exclusion pour actes criminels », dans Colloque Droit de l’assurance, Octobre 2017
« Les montants de rétention self-insured retention : quelle est leur étendue en droit civile québécois? » Développements récents en droit des assurances, Editions Yvon Blais, 2011
« La Loi canadienne sur la sécurité des produits de consommation : êtes-vous prêts? », Revue industrie et commerce, Septembre 2011
Immunité relative, irrecevabilité et quérulence : Est-il suffisant d’alléguer la mauvaise foi? Mars 2010
Representative Cases
Represents manufacturers in cases alleging design or manufacturing defects.
Acts for manufacturers in the implementation and management of recall campaigns.
Represents manufacturers in coroner’s investigations.
Represents various defendants in class actions involving product liability, professional liability, construction, neighborhood disturbances, and rights and freedoms.
Acts on behalf of insurers and carriers in aviation and rail transport matters.
Represents an excess insurer in an exceptionally lengthy trial involving various technical issues and more than 750 plaintiffs.
Acts for insurers in major insurance litigation regarding the determination of applicable law to insurance policies for claims exceeding $1.5 billion.
Represents professionals, including hospitals and brokers, before the civil court and in coroner’s investigations.
Provides coverage opinions on aviation, D&O, E&O, CGL, and construction insurance policies.