Managing Partner
"Excellence matters."
A civil litigator focused on municipal liability, personal injury and insurance.
David Morin is the Managing Partner of Davidson Cahill Morrison LLP. His practice is civil litigation, with a particular focus on personal injury, municipal liability, product liability and professional negligence. He has acted for property owners in leading building-inspection appeals at the Court of Appeal for Ontario, including Breen v Lake of Bays (Township) and Tokarz v Selwyn (Township), and he represents seriously injured people in personal injury and insurance matters.
Beyond his own practice, David is a past president of the Muskoka Law Association and has chaired both the Audit Committee and the Paralegal Regulation Sub-Committee of the Ontario Bar Association. He is a member of the Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates' Society and the American Association for Justice.
David acts across the firm's plaintiff-side and litigation work. His main areas are:
A selection of David's reported decisions. Each links to the full judgment on CanLII.
From the blog
Notes and commentary on recent decisions and developments.
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.
Ontario has four licensed title insurers, and unlike in the United States, no regulator standardizes what their policies say. Having acted for homeowners insured by each of them, the firm’s insurance litigation group has seen how a difference of two or three words can decide a future claim. The harder question is for the lawyers selling these policies at closing: on what basis is that choice being made?
When a real estate lawyer orders a title insurance policy for a client, are they quietly stepping into the role of an insurance agent? Read against the Insurance Act’s definition of “agent” and the fact that lawyers are not members of the Registered Insurance Brokers of Ontario, the question is sharper than it looks, and it is one reason a homeowner should not rely on the lawyer who sold the policy to tell them whether they have a claim under it.
The Huntsville Team
David works with an experienced group of law clerks, a paralegal and a legal assistant at the firm's Huntsville office. They are your day-to-day points of contact on a file.
Emma Burton
Paralegal
Cydney Jones
Law Clerk
Helen Pozdeev
Law Clerk
Tania Quinlan
Legal Assistant
Davidson Cahill Morrison LLP
For a building inspection or building code dispute, a title insurance claim, or a serious injury, David and his team are ready to help. The first conversation is straightforward and without obligation.
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