Shannon Gaudet

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2012

Areas of Practice
Health Law

Description
Shannon Gaudet is a partner and lead of our specialty insurance group. She has over ten years of experience in civil litigation and significant trial and appellate experience in a wide range of areas, including specialty insurance coverage, health law, insurance litigation and professional regulation. She has appeared before all levels of the court in Ontario, as well as several administrative tribunals.

Her insurance practice balances both advisory and dispute resolution work. She regularly advises insurers on most aspects of coverage, including opinions and guidance during the investigation of complex claims, with particular expertise in the areas of financial institutions, directors and officers, errors and omissions cover and general commercial liability claims. Shannon also defends insurers and their insureds in claims related to municipal and public entity liability, E&O and D&O liability, general and commercial liability, occupier’s liability, motor vehicle accidents and professional negligence matters.

Shannon regularly acts for members of several regulated health Colleges, including physicians, psychologists, dentists, respiratory therapists, and medical radiation and imaging technologists, in civil litigation claims alleging negligence, informed consent issues, human rights issues, and privacy breaches, and regulatory matters such as of fitness to practise and consent and capacity issues.