Practice Areas
I mediate complex civil disputes across many practice areas, with particular depth in insurance coverage.
Business Related Disputes
Contract disputes, ongoing business relations, class actions, commercial conflict and breach of contract claims.
Miscellaneous Tort Claims
Unfair Competition, Federal Torts Claims Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, TCPA, and civil rights claims.
Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith
First party, third party, intra-insurer, primary, excess, umbrella, and reinsurance disputes.
Complex Litigation
Multi-party disputes, class actions, and cases requiring sophisticated settlement navigation.
Construction / Environmental / Personal Injury
Environmental claims including Clean Water Act, wrongful death, construction defect claims, and products liability.
Community Related Disputes
Public and community disputes
Insurance Coverage
When Coverage Shapes the Case
Sometimes coverage questions shape the underlying case being mediated—allocation, exhaustion, additional insured status, reservation of rights, or the effect of layered programs on settlement authority.
When Coverage is the Dispute
Other times, coverage is the dispute itself—between insurer and policyholder, or among insurers—where policy language, complex facts and relationships are in issue.
I've worked in insurance coverage for four decades. I know my way around insurance contracts and coverage law—primary, excess, umbrella, and reinsurance.
I speak insurance. Well-versed in how carriers evaluate risk and how policyholders experience coverage disputes.
Fluency matters in mediation. It means we don't spend the day translating positions or educating the mediator. We can focus on the real work—evaluating risk, aligning decision-makers, and moving toward resolution.