John Vamplew

John’s practice focuses on a broad range of complex insurance coverage, subrogation and property damage disputes. John has extensive experience handling fire loss, product liability and class action claims and he routinely advises insurers on coverage obligations under CGL, Commercial Property, Comprehensive Homeowner, Course of Construction and Life & Disability policies.

John is a co-founder of the firm’s Subrogation Practice Group and a past chair of the firm’s Insurance Coverage Practice Group. John, who identifies as legally blind, is also a co-founder of the firm’s Disability & Inclusion Committee.

John enjoys finding creative solutions to complex disputes. To better serve his clients, John has recently completed the Mediation Program at Harvard Law School, the “Mediating the Litigated Case” program at Pepperdine University’s Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution and is currently in the process of earning an LL.M. degree in Dispute Resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Outside of work, John likes to cook, travel and spend time with his wife Crystal and their two teenage boys To the astonishment of friends and family, John has twice completed the Vancouver-Whistler Gran Fondo bike ride.