David Morin has been recognized as one of Canada’s Leading Legal Practitioners in the 2025 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. This prestigious accolade is the result of an extensive peer-review process that identifies top legal professionals across the country.
David is the Managing Partner of Davidson Cahill Morrison LLP. His practice focuses on personal injury, municipal liability, title insurance, and professional negligence claims. David divides his practice time between offices in Toronto, Huntsville, and Bowmanville, Ontario. Depending on the day of the week, you can catch him in one of these offices.
For over three decades, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory has conducted an annual survey to highlight outstanding lawyers and firms. Rankings are determined through recommendations from law firm leaders and industry peers, acknowledging those who demonstrate excellence, leadership, and influence in their respective fields.
This distinction reflects David’s dedication to delivering exceptional legal services and advancing the profession through expertise and commitment.
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Does a title insurer have to pay to repair a home, or can it demolish the offending work and pay the lost value instead? In a $1.1M TitlePLUS dispute over unpermitted construction on a Winnipeg home, the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba answered (2025 MBKB 131). The decision is persuasive only in Ontario and is now under appeal.
A subrogating insurer steps into its insured’s shoes, and inherits its insured’s contractual breaches along the way. In Chippewas v Sexton’s Mechanical Limited, the owner cancelled the required builder’s risk policy before occupancy and before the loss. On summary judgment, the subrogated claim was dismissed. A cautionary read for insurers and contractors alike.
Proving surgical negligence means proving what happened behind the closed doors of an operating room, often with no independent witnesses and operative notes written hours later. At the OTLA Spring Conference 2026, Paul Cahill presents on the difficult line between surgical “never events” and “recognized complications,” and why outcome alone is never enough to establish liability.
How do personal injury firms build and sustain a winning practice in an increasingly competitive market? On March 25, 2026, Paul Cahill joins a panel of experienced practitioners to discuss case selection, niche development, the effective use of expert evidence, and the operational systems behind long-term firm growth.