Samantha Trahan

Her Recent Matters Include

• Recovering an eight-figure settlement from a tiered insurance program for property damage arising from a fire and partial structure collapse plus the associated business interruption loss.
• Reconstructing a client’s 40-year historical insurance program to identify primary and excess policies available to respond to current claims alleging past misconduct.
• Acting as the insureds’ independent coverage counsel to resolve two different wrongful death lawsuits arising out of vehicular accidents, without contribution from the insureds.
• Acting as the insureds’ independent coverage counsel to resolve two other wrongful death lawsuits arising out of oil and gas jobsite accidents, again without contribution from the insureds.
• Ongoing recovery from the historical Lloyds’ insurance market for long-tail exposure claims.
• Resolving a federal court coverage dispute for a policyholder caught between two excess insurers attempting to shift their responsibility to one another, resulting in a complete dismissal of all claims.
• Creating an agreement between a policyholder and separate tiers of insurance companies to fund underlying plaintiff’s personal injury lawsuit while allowing the insurance companies further time to arbitrate coverage issues arising out of MSA indemnity language.