As Toronto Regional Managing Partner, Cindy oversees the achievement of the Toronto office's strategic goals and objectives which include enhancing our engagement with and support of the Greater Hamilton and Toronto Area (GHTA) business community and our broader community.
In her practice, Cindy represents and is an advisor to many clients in the health sector focusing particularly on hospitals, defence of malpractice actions and representing her clients in all manner of civil and regulatory disputes. Cindy also has a class action defence practice focused on defending claims pertaining to misrepresentation of the health effects of a product or pharmaceutical. She is regularly recognized by colleagues as outstanding in her field by ranking bodies including Chambers Canada, Benchmark Litigation, Lexpert, Best Lawyers and many more.
Cynthia provides legal services through a Law Corporation.
Experience
- Acts as defence counsel multiple hospitals in defence of complex, multi-million dollar medical malpractice actions.
- Acts as defence counsel in a multi-million dollar class action and two of Canada’s healthcare costs recovery actions, including representation of Purdue Canada in various class actions initiated across Canada.
- Defending Trillium Gift of Life Network and University Health Network in application seeking declaration of a Charter violation due to management of wait list for liver transplants and in injunction brought by individual seeking urgent placement on the transplant list after declaration he was not eligible for a transplant.
- Acts as defence counsel in a multi-million dollar class action and two of Canada’s healthcare costs recovery actions.
- Ceretti v. Hamilton Health Sciences-McMaster Children's Hospital - Represented a Regional Autism Program run by Hamilton Health Sciences in a Judicial Review Application by a family seeking to prevent the Program from discharging a child from its services.
- El Roubi/Lopez Inquest - Represented the Central CCAC in the only inquest in Ontario to investigate the long-term care sector, which inquired into the deaths of Mr. Lopez and Mr. El Roubi following an assault by another resident.
- King/Bertrand Inquest – Represented Purdue Pharma in inquiry into the use and misuse of OxyContin arising from the deaths of Mr. King and Ms. Bertrand.
- Assists senior hospital leadership and Medical Advisory Committees on physician privileges issues.
- Advises hospital leadership on managing disruptive physician behaviour and quality of care issues.
- Acts as defence counsel multiple hospitals in defence of complex, multi-million dollar medical malpractice actions.
- Acts as defence counsel in a multi-million dollar class action and two of Canada’s healthcare costs recovery actions, including representation of Purdue Canada in various class actions initiated across Canada.
- Defending Trillium Gift of Life Network and University Health Network in application seeking declaration of a Charter violation due to management of wait list for liver transplants and in injunction brought by individual seeking urgent placement on the transplant list after declaration he was not eligible for a transplant.
- Acts as defence counsel in a multi-million dollar class action and two of Canada’s healthcare costs recovery actions.
- Ceretti v. Hamilton Health Sciences-McMaster Children's Hospital - Represented a Regional Autism Program run by Hamilton Health Sciences in a Judicial Review Application by a family seeking to prevent the Program from discharging a child from its services.
- El Roubi/Lopez Inquest - Represented the Central CCAC in the only inquest in Ontario to investigate the long-term care sector, which inquired into the deaths of Mr. Lopez and Mr. El Roubi following an assault by another resident.
- King/Bertrand Inquest – Represented Purdue Pharma in inquiry into the use and misuse of OxyContin arising from the deaths of Mr. King and Ms. Bertrand.
- Assists senior hospital leadership and Medical Advisory Committees on physician privileges issues.
- Advises hospital leadership on managing disruptive physician behaviour and quality of care issues.
