Overview

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Susan White is an experienced commercial litigation attorney with a specialty in insurance recovery.  Ms. White represents corporate and individual policyholders and has recovered millions in insurance proceeds on their behalf in all types of complex litigation against their insurers.  She is able to think out of the box, using creative and strategic approaches to both find and maximize insurance coverage for her policyholder clients.

Throughout her over 35 years of practice, she regularly has represented a wide variety of clients on numerous insurance coverage issues and has resolved complex insurance matters through settlement, arbitration and trial.  Ms. White has extensive experience with complex insurance matters, which include:

  • first party property loss, including losses related to wildfires to both homeowners and businesses
  • directors and officers liability
  • employment practices liability
  • data breach and privacy issues
  • errors and omissions liability
  • fiduciary liability
  • general liability, including property damage, bodily injury, and personal and advertising injury liability
  • crime/employee theft

Ms. White counsels clients operating in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing, entertainment, hospitality, telecommunications, software and Internet technology, education, financial services, and real estate.

Ms. White has served as lead counsel in coverage litigation in several states, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington.

Acting as insurance coverage counsel, Ms. White also represents companies in bankruptcy and advises trustees for bankrupt estates in connection with the recovery of insurance assets for the estate. She also represents policyholders in insurance broker negligence actions, when policyholders do not obtain the requested insurance coverage due to the acts or omissions of a broker.  And, she provides risk management guidance to clients to maximize the coverage provided by insurance policies. Additionally Ms. White speaks regularly on various insurance coverage issues.

Admissions

  • California
  • United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Education

  • Loyola Law School, J.D., cum laude

    Order of the Coif

  • Wheaton College, B.A.

  • American Bar Association, ABA’s Committee on Insurance Coverage Litigation
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association, Litigation section

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