Heather Rumble Peterson practices exclusively in the field of civil litigation with her main focus on class actions. She has extensive experience in the areas of negligence, personal injury and catastrophic loss, medical malpractice, commercial disputes, product liability and price-fixing.

Ms. Peterson has successfully pursued class action litigation against the Federal, Provincial and Territorial governments and many Canadian and multi-national corporations in the areas of product liability, negligence, securities, price-fixing and medical malpractice. She is currently a member of the counsel teams prosecuting numerous price-fixing class actions against national and multi-national corporations, including Hydrogen Peroxide, Air Cargo, Chocolates and Air Passenger.

Ms. Peterson has directed the set-up of a number of administrations to distribute class action settlement proceeds, including the administration of the 1986-1990 Hepatitis C Class Action Settlement Fund, the Walkerton Compensation Plan and Vitamins price-fixing. She continues to be involved in overseeing the 1986-1990 Hepatitis C settlement distribution. Ms. Peterson has also been appointed by the Ontario Court to administer settlement proceeds in a medical malpractice class action and in an environmental class action.

Admitted:
Ontario 1985

Education:
University of Windsor (LL.B.)
University of Windsor (B.A.)