Nigel P. Kent
Chair, Insurance Group
Member, Executive Committee





Direct Tel. (604) 643-3135
Email npk@cwilson.com








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800 - 885 West Georgia Street
Vancouver B.C. V6C 3H1
Main Tel. (604) 687-5700
Fax (604) 687-6314

www.cwilson.com

Area of Practice

Business and Insurance Litigation.

Representative Assignments

The defence of numerous class actions (vanishing premium, auto salvage deductibles, radiant heat panels, beverage container refunds, etc.);

Brokering settlement of a multimillion dollar E&O case against a prominent law firm and enforcing liability coverage for same;

Successfully defending a three hundred million dollar breach of fiduciary duty claim against a major educational institution;

Drafting policy wording for a newly licensed casualty and excess auto insurer;

Defending contractors and design professionals in a number of multi-party catastrophic property and casualty claims involving fires, landslides and contamination;

Acting as counsel in an arbitration respecting the valuation of minority limited partnership interests in a real estate development;

Obtaining injunctive relief and damages in BC’s first copyright infringement and domain name “cybersquatting” case;

Acting for a national franchisor in litigating the enforcement and termination of a franchise agreement;

Arguing cases before the Court of Appeal involving bad faith, duty to defend, coverage, complex liability issues; and

Handling coverage enforcement and contribution claims through various litigation, arbitration and appraisal processes.

Profile

Nigel Kent has been a partner with Clark Wilson LLP since 1991 and heads up the firm’s Insurance Litigation practice group. He is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Nigel has written numerous publications, and is a regular presenter at seminars and conferences on commercial and insurance litigation. Many of his articles are available on Clark Wilson LLP’s website.

With many years experience in insurance and business litigation matters, Nigel has handled a good number of complex and difficult cases at the trial and appellate levels in both Alberta and BC. He is a successful negotiator and has brokered settlements of many complicated multi-party disputes. He has arbitrated and litigated a wide variety of insurance coverage and contribution claims.

Nigel is an elected member of the International Association of Defence Counsel (IADC) and was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada (2008) in the field of Insurance law. (Copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC.)

He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University in 1980.

Memberships & Associations

Member, Law Societies of Alberta (1981) and British Columbia (1991)
Member, International Association of Defence Counsel
Member, British Columbia and Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association
Member, Canadian Bar Association (Litigation and Insurance subsections)
Member, Defence Research Institute
Instructor, Insurance Law Course, Capilano University
Lecturer, Continuing Legal Education

Publications & Presentations

Some of the more recent articles and texts written by Nigel or presented by him at seminars/conferences include:

Nigel is a presenter on these and other topics at numerous seminars under the auspices of the Canadian Risk and Insurance Managers Society, the Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C., the Insurance Institutes of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, the Insurance Brokers’ Association of B.C., and Insight Educational Services.