Sean FitzGerald built his career and business getting to the truth of personal injury and loss, one client at a time.

There are times—standing at a podium making a speech, in a courtroom delivering a report or, in this instance, chatting on the telephone—when Sean FitzGerald (C.Mgr., FCMI) sounds less like the founder and CEO of one of Canada’s most respected consulting firms for personal injury and loss and more like the disarmingly affable, 1970s TV gumshoe Columbo. You half expect him, at any moment, to call you “brother”, though you’ve only just met.

“Yeah, my friend, they don’t have university degrees for what I do in Canada,” he says, referring to his 32-year career providing expert advice to workplace compensation boards, insurers and law firms in the fields of vocational assessment and earning capacity. “I do have a master’s degree in psychology, which I got last year from London Metropolitan University in England. But, you know, I don’t really throw that out there first in conversation.”

Nor does he necessarily “throw out there” the fact that his services—or, more properly, those of his 14-member firm, Vocational Rehabilitation Assessments (VRA) of St. John’s, N.L.—are in high demand in the United States, Australia, Turkey and South Africa (where he once helped secure the second-highest personal injury settlement in that country’s history). Or, closer to home, associated with headline-making cases.

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