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Edona Vila

Partner,
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Edona Vila is a Partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP.  Edona handles high stakes litigation and regulatory matters on behalf of domestic and multinational corporations and insurers in a variety of disputes ranging from property damage, product liability, construction defects, and professional negligence matters to regulatory enforcement action.  As part of her practice, Edona focuses in the defence of catastrophic claims related to alleged product failures on behalf of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and retailers. Most recently, Edona successfully acted as co-lead trial and appellate counsel in the Workman class proceeding on behalf of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s which resulted with a favourable decision defending the insurers coverage position on Covid-19 business interruption claims of approx. 10,000 plaintiffs.  In addition, Edona is an active contributor to thought leadership in insurance law, including as faculty for various programs for the Insurance Institute and the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada.