Overview
Insurance companies turn to Beth for her experience analyzing and litigating medical professional liability coverage issues for medical professionals, hospitals, and clinics. She also helps medical professional liability insurance carriers draft policy forms.
Beth also represents policyholders in insurance coverage disputes involving general liability insurance, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and other types of liability insurance. Beth has litigated, mediated or arbitrated insurance coverage disputes involving environmental contamination, asbestos-related bodily injury and property damage, toxic torts, products liability, construction defects and bad faith.
Beth’s focus is simple: she helps her policyholder clients get the insurance coverage for which they paid premiums when they need it; helps her insurance company clients avoid providing coverage for which they did not contract and did not collect any premiums; and, when the existence of insurance coverage is a murky issue that could be resolved either way, she seeks the best possible result for her client.
PRACTICE AREAS
Practice Areas
Credentials
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 1990
College of William and Mary, B.A. 1987
Admissions
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. Courts of Appeals, Fourth and D.C. Circuits
U.S. District Courts, District of Columbia and Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
Experience
- Litigated insurance coverage disputes involving environmental contamination, asbestos-related bodily injury and property damage, toxic torts, products liability, construction defects and bad faith.
- Mediated and arbitrated complex commercial insurance and reinsurance disputes.
- Counseled insurers on coverage issues involving agriculture, flood damage, policyholder bankruptcies, and energy markets.
- Advised insurers on a wide variety of claims-handling and regulatory compliance issues.
- Represented a liability insurers’ trade organization as amicus curiae in complex insurance coverage litigation.
- Advised House of Ruth, a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization serving women, children and families in need.
- Represented pro bono clients in litigation seeking improved public transit service in the Washington, D.C. area for people with disabilities.
Insurance companies turn to Beth for her experience analyzing and litigating medical professional liability coverage issues for medical professionals, hospitals, and clinics. She also helps medical professional liability insurance carriers draft policy forms.
Beth also represents policyholders in insurance coverage disputes involving general liability insurance, directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and other types of liability insurance. Beth has litigated, mediated or arbitrated insurance coverage disputes involving environmental contamination, asbestos-related bodily injury and property damage, toxic torts, products liability, construction defects and bad faith.
Beth’s focus is simple: she helps her policyholder clients get the insurance coverage for which they paid premiums when they need it; helps her insurance company clients avoid providing coverage for which they did not contract and did not collect any premiums; and, when the existence of insurance coverage is a murky issue that could be resolved either way, she seeks the best possible result for her client.
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 1990
College of William and Mary, B.A. 1987
Admissions
District of Columbia
Virginia
U.S. Courts of Appeals, Fourth and D.C. Circuits
U.S. District Courts, District of Columbia and Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia
- Litigated insurance coverage disputes involving environmental contamination, asbestos-related bodily injury and property damage, toxic torts, products liability, construction defects and bad faith.
- Mediated and arbitrated complex commercial insurance and reinsurance disputes.
- Counseled insurers on coverage issues involving agriculture, flood damage, policyholder bankruptcies, and energy markets.
- Advised insurers on a wide variety of claims-handling and regulatory compliance issues.
- Represented a liability insurers’ trade organization as amicus curiae in complex insurance coverage litigation.
- Advised House of Ruth, a Washington, D.C. non-profit organization serving women, children and families in need.
- Represented pro bono clients in litigation seeking improved public transit service in the Washington, D.C. area for people with disabilities.