Cynthia Benson

Partner

“Just like with every Olympic medal, every remarkable life begins with one courageous step. What step can you take to raise your life to the next level?”
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Finding the right solution.

With a practice focused on insurance law, Cynthia feels it is essential to recognize the client’s priorities and provide them with a favourable cost-effective resolution, be it through litigation, mediation or another alternative process. Cynthia is also an International Skating Union (ISU) accredited figure skating judge and judged at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Representative matters

Cynthia’s clients are facing a double whammy of increasing costs and the complexities of litigation. Her clients include major casualty insurers, life and disability insurers, professional liability insurers and plaintiffs. Some of the services she has performed for these clients include:
  • Acting for national automobile insurers in defending personal injury actions, including fatalities.
  • Acting on behalf of national disability insurers defending against disability claims.
  • Representing an international engineering firm involved in complex construction litigation.

Areas of practice:

  • Insurance
  • Litigation

BAR ADMISSION(S)

New Brunswick, 1992

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Law Society of New Brunswick

EDUCATION

University of New Brunswick, LL.B., 1991
Queen’s University, B.A. (honours), 1988

ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association

LANGUAGE(S)

English

MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS

CV

EXTERNAL RATINGS

  • Best Lawyers, Insurance Law, 2011-2012

Suite 1000, Brunswick House
44 Chipman Hill
Saint John, NB, Canada
E2L 2A9

P 506.632.8301
F 506.634.3579

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LEGAL ASSISTANT(S)

Allyn Hunter

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