Kim E. Stoll

Kim’s practice focuses on transportation law, with particular experience in marine and trucking matters, including freight forwarding and logistics, cargo losses, product liability, casualty claims and personal injury litigation (including transportation related cases) and mediation. She also brings many years of experience handling property and casualty litigation, mediation, and claims adjustment. Kim regularly provides detailed and sophisticated insurance coverage advice, including for bespoke transportation-related policies, and has acted as excess counsel and for underinsured entities in complex matters.

Kim has conducted trials before both the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Federal Court of Canada. In addition to her litigation practice, Kim is an active mediator across Canada, specializing in transportation-related disputes while also mediating a broad range of litigated matters. She holds Certificates in ADR and Advanced ADR from the University of Windsor and from Pepperdine University’s STAR (Systematic Approach to Mediation Strategies) program. She is a member of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society and has completed the TCAS Gold Standard Course.

Kim is deeply involved in the transportation industry. Kim is the President of the Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (Canada), following several years in national and regional leadership roles. Kim is a Past President of the Canadian Transport Lawyers Association and serves as the Chair of the Membership Committee for the Canadian Maritime Law Association.

Expertise

Representative work

• Transportation – international, domestic and cross-border
• defended vessel owners and operators, ports, marinas against complex personal injury claims and property damage claims;
• defended shippers, consignees, road carriers and freight forwarders/ load brokers/ warehousers/ insurers in respect of cargo claims including cargo damage, theft of trailers and warehouse flooding and goods claims
• defended truckers/ insurers/ leasing companies against personal injury claims for motor vehicle accidents and loss transfer proceedings
• defended marina owners/ boat repairers regarding fire, water, winterization and storage damage claims and occupier’s liability claims
• provided complex coverage advice
• acted as a neutral Umpire in insurance policy disputes
• acted as a mediator in disputes of all kinds