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Susan White is our latest Featured Speaker!

Posted on by Katie Freeman
08 Apr

Our latest featured speaker is Susan White from Buchalter!

Susan is speaking at our upcoming Bad Faith Insurance Litigation in CA program on April 16 & 18, 2024. This program will cover critical 2024 hot topics – the latest issues, cases, new rules and common problems associated with Bad Faith Insurance cases in a variety of settings that apply to business clients or individual clients. Susan previously spoke at our Understanding the Legal Impact of Covid-19 as it Affects Your Clients, Your Life and Your Business program in 2020, and our Bad Faith Insurance Litigation program in 2015.

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 30 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 or trial. Ms. White has extensive experience with complex insurance matters.

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

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 provides risk management guidance to clients to maximize the coverage provided by insurance policies. Additionally, Ms. White speaks regularly on various insurance coverage issues.

We are excited to have her join us!

Ricardo Echeverria is our latest Featured Speaker!

Posted on by Katie Freeman
01 Apr

Our latest featured speaker is Ricardo Echeverria from Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP!

Ricardo is speaking at our upcoming Bad Faith Insurance Litigation in CA program on April 16 & 18, 2024. Ricardo previously spoke at our Insurance Solutions for Covid-19 Business Losses and Claims program, and our 1st Party Property Insurance Bad Faith Cases From Start to Finish program. Ricardo will be a part of a stellar panel for this program, which will cover critical 2024 hot topics – the latest issues, cases, new rules and common problems associated with Bad Faith Insurance cases in a variety of settings that apply to business clients or individual clients.

Ricardo Echeverria is a trial attorney with Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP handling insurance bad faith and catastrophic personal injury cases. Mr. Echeverria is a past-president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) the nation’s largest local association of plaintiffs’ attorneys. He was recognized as one of the Top 30 Plaintiff Lawyers in California in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, and was named one of the Top 100 Attorneys in California in 2017, 2018 and 2023 by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He was honored by the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association as the 2021 Top Gun Trial Lawyer of the Year. In 2019, he was honored with the Lifetime Legal Achievement Award from Consumer Watchdog. In 2023, Ricardo was recently inducted into The Inner Circle of Advocates, known as the 100 best plaintiff lawyers in the U.S. The Inner Circle of Advocates is an exclusive, invitation-only group of the best plaintiff lawyers in the United States.

Mr. Echeverria was named 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Consumer Attorneys of Inland Empire and was also named the 2010 Trial Lawyer of the Year by CAALA after having been nominated for the award from 2006 through 2009. He has also been a finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California’s Consumer Attorney of the Year in 2007, 2009, 2018 and 2020. He was also a finalist for the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year. Mr. Echeverria was presented the 2011 – 2012 Jennifer Brooks Lawyer of the Year Award by the Western San Bernardino County Bar Association. In 2012, he received an Outstanding Trial Lawyer Award from the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego. He has been named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine every year since 2005. He has been named a “Best Lawyer” by the Best Lawyers in America publication every year since 2014.

We are excited to have him with us!

Susan Koehler Sullivan is our latest Featured Speaker!

Posted on by Katie Freeman
29 Mar

Our latest featured speaker is Susan Koehler Sullivan from Clyde & Co LLP!

Susan is speaking at our upcoming Bad Faith Insurance Litigation in CA program on April 16 & 18, 2024. Susan will be a part of a wonderful panel for this program, which will cover critical 2024 hot topics – the latest issues, cases, new rules and common problems associated with Bad Faith Insurance cases in a variety of settings that apply to business clients or individual clients.

Susan Koehler Sullivan has over 30 years of experience as a commercial litigator, focusing her practice on corporate insurance matters. She handles insurance coverage investigations and disputes (including through trial or arbitration) under all types of policies, including fidelity, directors and officers, employment, professional, property, excess and general liability policies.

Susan employs a 360-degree approach to every matter, where fully analyzing factual and legal issues are just the beginning. She evaluates and considers each party’s interests and motivations to determine the best strategy forward and enjoys working closely with her clients to achieve their goals.

Susan was listed as one of the “45 Most Influential Women Lawyers” by the LA Business Journal in 2017. She was also named to the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal’s list of “Top Women Lawyers 2017.”

We are excited to have her with us!

Michael Bidart is our latest Featured Speaker!

Posted on by Katie Freeman
25 Mar

Our latest featured speaker is Michael Bidart from Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP!

Michael previously spoke at our 1st Party Property Insurance Bad Faith Cases From Start to Finish (CA) back in 2021 to rave reviews, and he will speak at our upcoming Bad Faith Insurance Litigation in CA program. This webinar will be held on April 16 & 18, 2024.

Thank you for joining us again, Michael! We are excited to have you speak again!

As a preeminent consumer attorney, Michael J. Bidart has made a major impact on our healthcare system. Mr. Bidart is the Managing Partner for Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, and he leads the firm’s HMO Litigation and Property/Casualty Departments.

Since bringing his expertise to the firm in 1986, Mr. Bidart has developed the firm’s health insurance practice by successfully prosecuting bad faith disputes against insurers and HMOs.

His inexhaustible efforts were showcased in 1999 with a landmark $120.5 million verdict against Aetna over its refusal to pay for care recommended by the health plan’s own physicians (Goodrich v. Aetna).

Mr. Bidart’s dedication and expertise are also exemplified by many earlier landmark decisions. In State Farm v. Superior Court (1996) he helped establish conclusively that Business & Professions Code §17200 unfair business practice liability applies to insurance companies in California. For victims of the 1994 Northridge earthquake he won more than $300 million.

He was a key player in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s decision to expand its health care benefits for women with breast cancer, and he led the firm’s effort to ensure that prostate cancer patients statewide receive proton beam therapy as a covered benefit under their insurance policies.

Mr. Bidart has been named a Super Lawyer by Law & Politics Magazine every year since 2004, has been a Super Lawyer Top 100 Attorney every year since 2004 and Top 10 from 2018 to 2023. In 2019, he was named a Top Healthcare Attorney in California by the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He has been profiled in the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer and California Lawyer Magazine, which have recognized him as one of California’s most influential lawyers. The Wall Street Journal has also noted that Mr. Bidart’s success in healthcare litigation helped to reignite the debate in Congress over whether patients should have the right to sue their health plans.

A well-known lecturer and keynote speaker on HMO litigation and bad faith insurance practices, Mr. Bidart has been a featured speaker for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Consumer Attorneys of California, American Conference Institute, The Rutter Group, Pincus Professional Education, the California Judges Association and many others.

Mr. Bidart has served on the Board of Governors of Consumer Attorneys of California and Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, on the Board of Regents of Loyola Marymount University.

Mr. Bidart graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (B.S., 1971) and Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D., 1974) and has been the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of both universities.

We are excited to have him with us!