Sarah Lindsay Jones

Sarah has practiced insurance and civil litigation with Thomas Gold Pettingill since 2010. Sarah has a diverse practice focused on representing clients in commercial litigation, tort defence, and subrogation matters.

Sarah has experience in complex insurance matters involving failure to educate, occupier’s liability, construction liability, tavern liability, product liability, professional negligence, motor vehicle insurance claims, and subrogation. Sarah also represents clients involved in transportation related matters including cases involving motor vehicle accidents, customs detainment and seizure, damage to goods, delay and frustration, breach of contract issues, theft, and subrogation.

Sarah also has extensive experience conducting examinations under oath and has represented a number of insurers in affirmative litigation cases seeking to collect damages for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, and conspiracy relating to the submission of false claims documents and invoices. Sarah is an experienced advocate and has successfully represented clients before the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, and in private arbitrations.

Hartley v. York University et al. (CV-21-00661515, June 12, 2023) – Successfully moved to strike the statement of claim as against two individual university employees, without leave to amend.

Abrahams v. Attorney General of Ontario, 2022 ONSC 514: Successfully moved to strike Plaintiff’s entire Statement of Claim, without leave to amend, on basis that it was an abuse of process.

Lam v University of Western Ontario Board of Governors , 2017 ONSC 6933 – Successful in having Plaintiff’s entire claim dismissed on a summary judgment motion on the basis that the claim was academic in nature and not the proper subject matter of a civil claim.