Oneal Banerjee (He/Him)
Oneal Banerjee has been practicing insurance and personal injury litigation since 2003. Oneal has represented clients at all stages of the litigation process, up to and including trial, judicial review, and appeal. Oneal’s experience prior to joining Dolden Wallace Folick includes complex insurance, product liability, and government liability litigation as a lawyer at one of the country’s largest full-service national law firms and a leading insurance defence boutique, after Articling at the Crown Law Office – Civil (Ontario).
Oneal has extensive experience defending negligent investigation and wrongful death matters, defending physical assault and sexual abuse claims, and handling product liability complex property and casualty claims, arising from fires and gas explosions.
Oneal’s practice areas include:
Class Action Defence:
- Currently acting as defence and monitoring counsel in several high profile class actions in multiple provinces in Canada, arising from casualties, abuse, fatalities, and significant property loss
Complex Property Loss:
- Currently acting as defence counsel in several high value fire and water loss claims for insurers and their insureds
- Has defended numerous complex fire, water, and gas explosion claims for insurers
Sports and Recreation Liability:
- Currently acting for several sports organizations in defending complex personal injury claims and claims arising from disciplinary proceedings against members or coaches
Complex Personal Injury:
- Currently defending several alleged negligence claims against several insured entities arising from fatalities
- Has defended countless negligence claims arising from catastrophic or life altering injuries on behalf of insurers and their insureds
Civil Sexual Abuse:
- Has defended sports organizations in claims alleging sexual abuse by coaches arising from alleged negligence of the organizations
Product Liability:
- Has acted for product manufacturers of automobiles, televisions, toasters, and other products in claims alleging that product defects resulted in catastrophic injury or significant property loss
Occupiers’ Liability:
- Currently acting for several insured winter maintenance contractors in claims involving complex personal injuries as a result of alleged deficiencies in winter maintenance
- Has acted for municipalities and other insured occupiers in defending claims relating to recreational trails, sidewalks, parking lots, and other premises alleged to have been kept in unsafe conditions
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Toronto Lawyers’ Association (Board of Directors)
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association, Insurance Law Section Executive (Member-at-Large)
- The Advocates’ Society
- South Asian Bar Association (Toronto)
- Canadian Defence Lawyers
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Presenter, “Oral Advocacy: The Art of War – Winning Mediations, Pre-Trials, and Trials”, Canadian Defence Lawyers’ Annual Boot Camp, October 23, 2023
Presenter, “Motor Vehicle Coverage Issues: The Tail That Wags The Dog”, Law Society of Ontario, 6th Annual Motor Vehicle Law Summit, September 19, 2023
Moderator, “If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Perceptions from Three Recently Appointed Judges”, Toronto Lawyers’ Association Webinar, June 6, 2023
Presenter: “Class Actions Wagons Go West: Changes to the Ontario Class Proceedings Act, Its Impact, and Related Considerations”, Dolden Wallace Folick LLP Webinar, January 18, 2023
Co-Author: “Intrusion Upon Seclusion: The Ontario Court of Appeal Affirms the ‘Hacked’ are not ‘Hackers’, Dolden Wallace Folick LLP, Class Action Updates, December 2022
Author: “What I love about being a lawyer”, practicePRO Magazine, August 2022 (Student Edition)
Panelist, “Taking Your Negotiations to the Next Level”, Ontario Bar Association (OBA), Alternative Dispute Section Webinar, June 21, 2022
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Law Society of Ontario (2003)
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours), University of Ottawa (1996)
Juris Doctor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law (2002)
Pugliese v. Chartwell, 2024 ONSC 1135 (CanLII)
Brookes v. Athletics Ontario, 2023 ONSC 5420 (CanLII)
