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September 21, 2021
John Ellison of Reed Smith LLP helped secure more than $750 million in indemnity coverage for MGM's settlement with victims of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2021 Insurance MVPs.
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September 20, 2021
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Deborah Stein helped notch a host of victories for Travelers in the carrier's pandemic coverage disputes with policyholders and authored the insurer's brief in the first case to be appealed to the Ninth Circuit, earning her a spot among Law360's 2021 Insurance MVPs.
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September 17, 2021
Robin Cohen and Kenneth Frenchman of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna notched a win for New Jersey Transit when the New Jersey High Court found that hurricane water damage was not capped by its $400 million insurance policy's $100 million flood sublimit coverage, earning them a spot among Law360's 2021 Insurance MVPs.
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August 30, 2021
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2021 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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October 09, 2020
Allison Tam of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP led her firm in advising KKR & Co. on its $4.4 billion acquisition of Global Atlantic Financial Group, one of the largest life insurance M&A deals in 2020, landing her on the list of Law360's 2020 Insurance MVPs.
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October 08, 2020
Victories in insurance coverage suits, such as the first substantive ruling denying coverage for COVID-19-related losses in Social Life Magazine v. Sentinel Insurance, as well as representing AIG in a dispute with Merck & Co. over coverage of a cyberattack, have earned Steptoe & Johnson LLP's Sarah Gordon a spot as one of Law360's 2020 Insurance MVPs.
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October 07, 2020
Todd Freed of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP had a hand in multiple major deals in the insurance space this past year, including advising the British multinational brokerage Willis Towers Watson on an $80 billion acquisition by Aon PLC, earning him a spot among Law360's 2020 Insurance MVPs.
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October 06, 2020
Bryce L. Friedman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has helped large insurers get favorable rulings on COVID-19-related claims, and worked with the American Property Casualty Insurance Association to challenge potential legislation that could force insurers to cover pandemic losses, making him a Law360 2020 Insurance MVP.
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October 05, 2020
A victory at the California Supreme Court representing Montrose Chemical Corp. and an ongoing $1 billion bad-faith suit against Zurich American Insurance Co. over lead exposure are two of the cases that placed Latham & Watkins LLP's John Wilson and Brook Roberts among Law360's 2020 Insurance MVPs.
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October 04, 2020
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2020 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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December 12, 2019
Robin Cohen of McKool Smith PC's insurance practice was lead counsel for Verizon Communications Inc. this year as the company beat back its insurers' motion to toss a suit seeking coverage for a $95 million underlying settlement, earning her a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.
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December 11, 2019
Wargo French LLP's Raymond J. Tittmann helped a subsidiary of The Home Depot negotiate a global settlement of thousands of claims brought by homeowners and their insurers over damage caused by allegedly defective toilet products, landing him on the list of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.
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December 10, 2019
Christine Haskett of Covington & Burling LLP's San Francisco office won a $35.5 million jury verdict for an aluminum company and unlocked insurance proceeds for the former owners of a talc mining company caught in a high-stakes bankruptcy, earning her a spot among Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.
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December 09, 2019
Andrew T. Frankel of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped defeat asbestos claims against Travelers Property Casualty Co., and he represents it in coverage disputes stemming from lawsuits over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.
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December 06, 2019
Sidley Austin LLP's Amanda Todd recently helped Lincoln Financial Group in its transfer of $7.7 billion in annuity risks to a reinsurer and has steered other insurance companies and financial institutions in a wide variety of complex transactions, making her one of Law360's 2019 Insurance MVPs.
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November 08, 2019
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2019 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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December 07, 2018
Andrew Kay's work with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans bore fruit over the past year for the life insurer and financial-products company with not one but two industry-affecting wins, making Kay one of Law360's 2018 Insurance MVPs.
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December 06, 2018
Jane M. Byrne guided three companies through a rare insurance trial and secured several victories outside of court this year, adding to her already crowded list of achievements and landing the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorney among Law360's 2018 Insurance MVPs.
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December 05, 2018
Todd Freed of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP helped to guide several insurance M&A deals worth tens of billions of dollars over the past year, including some groundbreaking international transactions like AIG's $5.6 billion purchase of Bermuda-based Validus Holdings Inc., earning him a spot as one of Law360's Insurance MVPs.
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December 04, 2018
Anderson Kill PC's insurance recovery specialist Robert Horkovich has scored big wins over the past year for policyholders in major environmental and asbestos cases, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Insurance MVPs.
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December 03, 2018
Although Kirk Pasich departed Liner LLP to launch his own firm, Pasich LLP, only last summer, he has not lost a step landing major wins for clients, from the First Circuit's holding that AIG must pay for Bill Cosby's defense in a defamation suit, to helping Dole Food Co. recoup millions from insurers after a groundbreaking shareholders' suit in Delaware, earning him a spot among Law360's 2018 Insurance MVPs.
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November 21, 2018
The elite slate of attorneys chosen as Law360's 2018 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.
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December 19, 2017
This past summer, Reed Smith LLP partner John W. Schryber convinced a Maryland federal court that Travelers must pay $87 million to private equity firm American Capital Ltd. and one of its portfolio companies to cover the costs of underlying suits over tainted blood thinner, landing him a spot among Law360's 2017 Insurance MVPs.
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December 18, 2017
Among her many wins this year, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP's Jane Byrne secured notable victories for client Infrassure in an arbitration-location fight in the Second Circuit and a case over $100 million worth of fire-related damage at a refinery, making her one of Law360's 2017 Insurance MVPs.
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December 15, 2017
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP litigation partner Mary Beth Forshaw has had a busy year, settling a $500 million reinsurance case at jury selection and racking up a Second Circuit win on an environmental cleanup coverage case, securing a place as one of Law360’s 2017 Insurance MVPs.