Biography • Insurance & Reinsurance

Mary Margaret Fox joined Nicholl Paskell-Mede LLP (NPM), a leading insurance and liability defence litigation firm in Canada, effective 1 January 2008 as counsel. Prior to that Mary Margaret was a partner in the Toronto firm of Borden & Elliot (1987-2000) and in its successor national firm, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (2000-2007). NPM merged with Clyde & Co. in 2011.

Mary Margaret began her career practicing civil litigation, with an emphasis on insurance defence work, claims against investment dealers and product liability claims. Over the years her practice became increasingly focused on coverage work, particularly in the area of directors' and officers' (D&O) and errors and omissions liability (E&O) policies.

Her current practice focuses primarily upon providing coverage opinions and advice and monitoring claims under D&O and E&O policies. She also advises insurers with respect to D&O and E&O policy wordings.

Mary Margaret is a frequent speaker and panellist on various aspects of D&O insurance and also publishes comments from time to time on cases of interest in this area.

Mary Margaret is and has been listed and recommended in the following guides: from 1997 to 2012 in the Canadian Legal L'Expert Directory, for commercial insurance litigation and for directors' and officers' liability; between 2003 and 2012 in The International Who's Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers; from 2005 to 2012 in the L'Expert American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for directors' and officers' liability; and from 2006 to 2012 in The Best Lawyers in Canada for directors' and officers' liability and insurance law.