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Insurance Coverage Litigation Strategies: How to Sue and Be Sued
July 1, 2024
Katherine Tammaro has nearly 25 years of experience representing insurance companies in complex coverage matters throughout the country, including professional liability; specialty lines, including media-specific policies; D&O and EPLI; environmental; advertising; personal injury; product liability, including asbestos and chemical exposures; and construction defect cases. She also handles numerous claims of bad faith and improper claims handling.
As a co-chair of Wilson Elser’s Pro Bono Committee, Kate oversees the continued effectiveness of the firm’s pro bono program and is committed to advancing its objectives.
Kate has authored numerous articles on insurance coverage topics, including analysis of the pollution exclusions; allocation of defense and indemnity costs; advertising and personal injury claims handling practices; additional insured and contractual indemnification issues; targeted tender and occurrence concerns; discovery and technology topics such as discovery of electronic data and privilege in general and in bad faith cases; professional liability policies, including claims made, coverage for mold under liability and property policies; construction defects under liability and property policies, including OCIPs; and homeowners and auto claims issues. She has spoken at numerous ACI, PLRB, DRI and Mealey’s conferences throughout the country on these topics.
Katherine Tammaro has nearly 25 years of experience representing insurance companies in complex coverage matters throughout the country, including professional liability; specialty lines, including media-specific policies; D&O and EPLI; environmental; advertising; personal injury; product liability, including asbestos and chemical exposures; and construction defect cases. She also handles numerous claims of bad faith and improper claims handling.
As a co-chair of Wilson Elser’s Pro Bono Committee, Kate oversees the continued effectiveness of the firm’s pro bono program and is committed to advancing its objectives.
Kate has authored numerous articles on insurance coverage topics, including analysis of the pollution exclusions; allocation of defense and indemnity costs; advertising and personal injury claims handling practices; additional insured and contractual indemnification issues; targeted tender and occurrence concerns; discovery and technology topics such as discovery of electronic data and privilege in general and in bad faith cases; professional liability policies, including claims made, coverage for mold under liability and property policies; construction defects under liability and property policies, including OCIPs; and homeowners and auto claims issues. She has spoken at numerous ACI, PLRB, DRI and Mealey’s conferences throughout the country on these topics.
Katherine Tammaro has nearly 25 years of experience representing insurance companies in complex coverage matters throughout the country, including professional liability; specialty lines, including media-specific policies; D&O and EPLI; environmental; advertising; personal injury; product liability, including asbestos and chemical exposures; and construction defect cases. She also handles numerous claims of bad faith and improper claims handling.
As a co-chair of Wilson Elser’s Pro Bono Committee, Kate oversees the continued effectiveness of the firm’s pro bono program and is committed to advancing its objectives.
Kate has authored numerous articles on insurance coverage topics, including analysis of the pollution exclusions; allocation of defense and indemnity costs; advertising and personal injury claims handling practices; additional insured and contractual indemnification issues; targeted tender and occurrence concerns; discovery and technology topics such as discovery of electronic data and privilege in general and in bad faith cases; professional liability policies, including claims made, coverage for mold under liability and property policies; construction defects under liability and property policies, including OCIPs; and homeowners and auto claims issues. She has spoken at numerous ACI, PLRB, DRI and Mealey’s conferences throughout the country on these topics.
Katherine Tammaro (Partner-Madison, NJ) received a unanimous affirmance for the NJ Supreme Court following oral argument in September. On December 12, the court affirmed Kate’s wins at the Trial and Appellate levels. Essentially, the court held that an employer’s liability insurer will never have a coverage obligation, including any duty to defend, in a suit by an employee against an employer when that insurer is paying workers’ compensation benefits and the policy at issue contains the New Jersey Part Two (Employers Liability Endorsement) exclusion for claims within the New Jersey workers’ compensation exclusivity bar exception or similar language, which the Court found to be clear, unambiguous, and in accordance with the public policy of New Jersey.
Katherine E. Tammaro