Kaylea M. Dunn, KC
Partner
Kaylea is a partner in the Saskatoon office where she defends both personal injury and professional liability actions, provides policy coverage opinions and advances subrogated claims.
Kaylea practices largely in civil litigation. A member of the Firm’s Insurance Law Practice Group, she defends both personal injury and professional liability actions, provides policy coverage opinions and advances subrogated claims. She has also worked with a major natural resources company in achieving successful resolution with its insurers relating to a catastrophic property loss insurance claim. Kaylea started at McKercher as an associate in 2002 and became a partner in 2009.
Kaylea was honoured with a Queen’s Counsel appointment in 2021.
Kaylea has developed considerable expertise in privacy and access to information law. She has worked with local authorities, government institutions, health service providers, non-profit entities, financial institutions, and private sector businesses.
For years Kaylea maintained a general insurance broker’s license and membership in the Insurance Brokers’ Association of Saskatchewan (IBAS). She has prepared various papers and presentations for the CBA; Risk Management Counsel of Canada; Saskatchewan Legal Education Society (SKLESI); the Saskatoon Estate Planning Council; Saskatchewan Association of Insurance Adjusters, IBAS and the Canadian Insurance Claims Managers’ Association.
Kaylea has been “Repeatedly Recommended” in the area of Commercial Insurance Litigation and is listed in the 2024 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.
Kaylea has recently been ranked in Band 3 in the area of Litigation: General Commercial in Saskatchewan by Chambers Canada in their 2024 directory.
PAPERS
- Mopping up the Privacy Mess (SKLESI 2004)
- The Legal Profession and Privacy: Ramifications of PIPEDA (CBA, 2004)
- Professional Disciplinary Hearings & Related Civil Actions: How Evidentially Intertwined Are They? (Risk Management Counsel, 2004)
- Flirting with Extra-Provincial Agri-Business: Changes to Saskatchewan’s Farm Ownership Legislation (CBA, 2003)
- Employers’ Vicarious Liability for Acts of Employees (co-author) (SKLESI, 2002)
- A Review of the Statutory Appraisal Provisions in Insurance Legislation Across Canada (Risk Management Counsel, 2002)
