Alanna Brogan
Tel: 416.594.4694 Email: abrogan@sblegal.caAlanna is a motivated and dynamic lawyer, accomplished in developing legal strategy and resolving difficult disputes through negotiation and mediation.
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Biography
ALANNA BROGAN is a motivated and dynamic lawyer with a diverse insurance defence practice including professional liability, construction negligence, automobile negligence and coverage, property damage and occupiers’ liability claims.
Alanna is accomplished in developing legal strategy and resolving difficult disputes through negotiation and mediation. She proactively seeks opportunities for contractual risk transfer or early resolution for her clients, whether by means of negotiated agreement or in Court. With a client-focused approach, she endeavors to help her clients navigate disputes in a pragmatic and cost-effective manner.
Alanna has cases before the Superior Court of Justice, Court of Appeal for Ontario as well as a variety of administrative tribunals.
Alanna is involved in the firm’s mentoring program and appreciates opportunities to engage in professional development with clients. Outside of her professional pursuits, Alanna enjoys spending time at the cottage with her family, being a gymnastics and volleyball mom and working on her golf handicap.
Representative Work
- Represents engineers in building deficiency actions alleging professional negligence in design, project administration and/or inspection services
- Acts for contractors to successfully transfer risk by resolving duty to defend applications
- Represents insurance companies in first party automobile and property coverage actions
- Successfully defended a roadway contractor in a municipal liability and personal injury action involving catastrophic injuries allegedly as a result of roadway construction and design
- Defends insureds in personal injury litigation involving catastrophic and fatality claims.
- Represents insurance brokers in actions alleging professional negligence in the provision of broker services
- Successfully defended a national builder in an action involving allegations of negligence in the design and build of an indoor soccer arena
- Represents mediators and arbitrators in professional negligence claims
- Represented a pipe manufacturer in an action arising out of flooding event causing property damage at a university campus, allegedly due to faulty manufacturing and installation of the pipe
- Successfully defended a construction management company relying on contractual defences. The action arose out of an alleged sprinkler system defect causing a water loss during the construction of a distribution center
- Acted for landlord on summary judgment motion and appeal. Issue was application of a covenant to insure in the commercial lease agreement. Canadian Language Leadership Centre v 20 Eglinton, 2017 ONSC 3542; 2018 ONCA 604
- Successfully moved for early dismissal on motion and at the Court of Appeal for Ontario establishing the proceeding was frivolous, vexatious and an abuse of process
- Acted for condominium corporations in directors and officers liability claims
- Protected clients against tort litigation by successfully advancing Right to Sue applications pursuant to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act
Speaking Engagements
- Everything Additional Insured: ONCA Update, client seminar, 2024
- Everything Additional Insured, client seminar, 2024
- Let’s Talk: The Intelligent Insurance Agent, client seminar, 2024
- Let’s Talk Delay: Trends in Dismissal for Delay Motions, Stieber Berlach LLP Insurance Law Update Seminar, 2023
- A Primer on the Duty to Defend, client seminar, 2022
- Recovery for Pure Economic Loss, Stieber Berlach LLP Insurance Law Update Seminar, 2021
- Defending Construction Claims, client seminar, 2019
- Bad Faith, client seminar, 2018
- Carter v. Intact: Replacement Property Must Be of Like Kind and Quality, Stieber Berlach LLP Insurance Law Update Seminar, 2017
Publications
Carter v. Intact: Replacement Property Must Be of Like Kind and Quality, Stieber Berlach LLP Insurance Law Update Seminar, 2017