Richard B. Lindsay, QC
Partner - Vancouver Offices
Richard B. Lindsay is a founding partner of Lindsay Kenney LLP and a lawyer in our downtown Vancouver office. Mr. Lindsay’s practice focuses on general insurance litigation, with particular emphasis on products liability, engineering, energy and fire related matters.
As a well known insurance lawyer and fraud lawyer in Vancouver, Richard has extensive trial and appellate court experience, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Richard Lindsay’s areas of specific interest include complex multi-party litigation, subrogation, fraudulent claims, coverage and catastrophic injury cases with significant liability issues. In select cases he will act as a mediator or arbitrator.
Appointed Queens Counsel in 2003, Richard Lindsay was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 1978. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in 1971 from Carleton University and a Bachelor of Laws in 1977 at the University of British Columbia. His pre-law experience was as a Civil Engineer, and he has also completed courses in UBC’s Masters Program in Fire Protection Engineering.
Richard is listed in The International Who’s Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers and cited in Lexpert as a leading practitioner in the fields of commercial insurance, products liability and professional liability litigation. You will also find Richard Lindsay in Best Lawyers in Canada under Insurance Law, and he is Past President of the Canadian Defence Lawyers. In 2006 the Canadian Defence Lawyers presented Mr. Lindsay with the celebrated Lee Samis Award of Excellence. Recently, Mr. Lindsay was elected as a Fellow of the very prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers.
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Distinctions
- Queens Counsel (QC), appointed 2003
- Recipient, 2006 Lee Samis Award of Excellence
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- The International Who's Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers
- Lexpert, leading practitioner in the fields of commercial insurance, products liability and professional liability litigation
- Best Lawyers in Canada, Insurance Law
Education
- Bachelor of Laws, University of British Columbia, 1977
- Bachelor of Engineering (Civil), Carleton University, 1971
Memberships and Affiliations
- Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
- Canadian Bar Association
- Law Society of British Columbia (past member of education committee)
- Vancouver Bar Association (Executive Director, 1987/1988)
- Federation of Defence & Corporate Counsel (member)
- American Bar Association-Tort & Insurance Practice Section
- International Association of Defense Counsel, member since 1990
- BC Association of Insurance Defence Counsel, Former President
- BC Arbitration and Mediation Institute
- Defence Research Institute, Canadian Regional Director DRI Board of Directors 1999-2002
- Canadian Defence Lawyers, President 2003-2004, Director, 1999-2002
- Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists, (member since 1974)
- American Academy of Forensic Sciences, (Provisional Engineering Member)
- Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of BC Honorary Member
- National Fire Protection Association
- Certified Fraud Examiners, Vancouver Chapter (associate member)
- BC Medical Legal Society (past member)
- Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, BC Chapter (Honorary Counsel) Greater Vancouver Crime Stoppers (Director, 1995/1996)
- International Association of Special Investigation Units (Canadian Panel Counsel)
- International Association of Arson Investigators (Attorneys Advisory Council)
- Contributing Editor - The Investigator
- Chapter 15 Director (1990-Present)
- National Association of Subrogation Professionals
- Member of The Honorable Order of the Blue Goose - BC Pond
- Member of the British Insurance Law Association
