Heather Sanderson brings over 25 years of insurance and commercial litigation experience to MLT from her boutique firm, Polsky Sanderson. Heather is the author of The Comprehensive General Liability Policy: The Insuring Intent, (Butterworths, 1989), and the editor (as well as the author of seven of the 10 chapters) of Commercial General Liability Insurance, (Butterworths, 2000). Both books are standard industry reference materials and are on the required reading lists at several Canadian community colleges and universities offering insurance programs. In addition, both books have been cited in numerous insurance publications as well as by the Alberta, Nova Scotia, Quebec and New Brunswick Trial and Appellate Courts, the British Columbia Supreme Court, the Saskatchewan Court of Queenís Bench, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court (Trial Division).

Heather regularly provides advice to North American insurers and, on occasion, European re-insurers on coverage issues as well as all issues related to the defence of covered claims. Specifically, Heather has advised insurers on the drafting of policy wording, provided coverage opinions on property and liability policies of every description, defended property and casualty claims, litigated disability claims, defended uninsured actions and actions that fall exclusively within the self-insured retentions of insureds.

Heather has appeared before all levels of Courts in Alberta and was co-counsel with Len Polsky on the longest civil trial in the history of the Northwest Territories. Heather has also acted as an expert witness on insurance and civil litigation issues before the Alberta Court of Queenís Bench, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and in an action before the Quebec Superior Court.