Daniel is the Co-Leader of BLG’s Healthcare Group. Known for providing practical, strategic advice that resolves clients’ problems, Daniel’s practice is focused on complex medical malpractice litigation, class actions and privacy breach investigation and notification.
Daniel also routinely provides legal advice with respect to physician credentialing within hospitals, adverse event and risk management, and other diverse issues that arise in healthcare settings.
He regularly speaks on privacy and health law and, to give back to the profession, he co-chairs the Osgoode Certificate in Health Law. He is an active member and past chair of the Legal Issues Committee of Egale, a national 2SLGBTQI+ advocacy organization. He has also represented Egale on a pro bono basis in several interventions and appeals.
Called to the bar in Ontario and Québec, Daniel obtained his law degree at McGill University, where he was actively engaged with the McGill Human Rights Working Group's Access to Medicine Campaign.
He also attended the National Law School of India University in Bangalore during a semester abroad and interned for the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health in Mumbai. He is fluent in English and French.
Experience
- Defends hospitals and hospital staff in medical malpractice cases as counsel to the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada, including in long trials and appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada (Hemmings v Peng, 2022 ONSC 2674, Hemmings v. Peng, 2024 ONCA 318).
- Represents organizations facing large privacy breach class actions and negotiates favourable settlements.
- Successfully defeated certification in privacy breach class actions arising out of the inappropriate access or disclosure of personal health information by staff, had the decision upheld on appeal or was successful in having certification overturned on appeal (Broutzas v. Rouge Valley Health System, 2023 ONSC 1272 and Stewart v. Demme, 2022 ONSC 1790).
- Represented Egale in interventions aiming to protect drag performers from defamation and to protect the right to gender-inclusive health care (Ontario (Health Insurance Plan) v. K.S., 2025 ONCA 306 and Rainbow Alliance Dryden et al v. Webster, 2025 ONSC 1161.
- Successfully resisted an anti-SLAPP motion in a complex estate and defamation dispute in Estate of Colombe Quesnel v. G. Quesnel et al., 2025 ONSC 3497.
- Defends hospitals and hospital staff in medical malpractice cases as counsel to the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada, including in long trials and appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada (Hemmings v Peng, 2022 ONSC 2674, Hemmings v. Peng, 2024 ONCA 318).
- Represents organizations facing large privacy breach class actions and negotiates favourable settlements.
- Successfully defeated certification in privacy breach class actions arising out of the inappropriate access or disclosure of personal health information by staff, had the decision upheld on appeal or was successful in having certification overturned on appeal (Broutzas v. Rouge Valley Health System, 2023 ONSC 1272 and Stewart v. Demme, 2022 ONSC 1790).
- Represented Egale in interventions aiming to protect drag performers from defamation and to protect the right to gender-inclusive health care (Ontario (Health Insurance Plan) v. K.S., 2025 ONCA 306 and Rainbow Alliance Dryden et al v. Webster, 2025 ONSC 1161.
- Successfully resisted an anti-SLAPP motion in a complex estate and defamation dispute in Estate of Colombe Quesnel v. G. Quesnel et al., 2025 ONSC 3497.
