Biography
Pierre focuses his practice on insurance coverage litigation and has substantial experience with issues arising out of Commercial General Liability policies, including premises liability, negligence, or construction-related claims. His past work has included issues of additional insured coverage, contractual indemnification, and priority of coverage, as well as motion practice and discovery. Pierre has worked for another respected insurance coverage law firm in Buffalo. He has also interned for an insurance non-profit in California, the corporate department of a large insurer in Hartford, and a prominent professor of insurance law in Philadelphia.
Pierre has also done considerable work in the field of life expectancy expertise for litigation, both as a consulting attorney and as an expert witness, in the U.S. and Canada, and has presented at professional conferences to actuaries and physicians
Pierre received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he served as an associate editor of the Journal of Law and Social Change and was a member of the Penn Law Reproductive Rights group. He was also a teaching assistant for the course ‘Analytical Method and the Law’. He subsequently earned an LLM in Insurance Law from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
When away from the practice of law, Pierre is an avid chess player and wine enthusiast.
Education
University of Connecticut School of Law, Master of Law (LLM), Insurance Law, 2016
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, J.D., 2010
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Demography, 2006
University of California, Berkeley, MPH, Epidemiology, 2001
Université de Montréal, B.A., History, 1997
Languages
French
Presentations
“Modeling modifiers for the AMA impairment ratings “, Ethics and Regulation of Medicolegal Examination – Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators, Montréal, September 2012.
“Measuring Substandard Life Expectancy”, Actuarial Evidence Seminar, Canadian Institute of Actuaries, Montréal, September 9, 2011.
“Calculating Life Expectancy” – Canadian Life Insurance Medical Officers Association, Annual Meeting, Montréal, May 11, 2008.
“Espérance de vie” [Life Expectancy] – included in video library of web-based course “Médecine d’assurance”, School of Medicine, Université de Montréal, 2006.
“Mortality Analysis – MIB – Life Expectancy”– included in video library of web-based course “Insurance Medicine”, School of Medicine, Université de Montréal, 2006.
Publications
Vachon PJ (2019). Life Expectancy Expert Reports: Common Mistakes and Appropriate Process. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 30: 611–619.
Reynolds RJ, Kush SJ, Day SM, Vachon P. (2015). Comparative mortality and risk factors for death among Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-2013: experience from an occupational cohort with over two centuries of follow-up. J Insur Med. 2015;45:9-16.
Vachon PJ, Sestier F (2013). Life Expectancy Determination. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 24(3):539-51.
Sykes, Bryan and Pierre Vachon (2013). “Understanding Health Disparities in an Age of Mass Imprisonment.” Chapter 1 in Epidemiological Criminology: Theory to Practice, edited by Eve Waltermaurer and Timothy Akers. NY: Routledge.
Day SM, Strauss DJ, Vachon PJ, Rosenbloom L, Shavelle RM, Wu YW (2007). Growth patterns in a population of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 49:167-171.
Strauss DJ, Vachon PJ, Shavelle RM (2005). Estimation of future mortality rates and life expectancy in chronic medical conditions. Journal of Insurance Medicine, 37:20-34.