Profile - Laura A. Foggan

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Crowell & Moring LLP
1001 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20004-2595

Phone

(202) 624-2774

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Laura Foggan is chair of Crowell & Moring LLP's Insurance/Reinsurance Group. She is described by LawDragon 500 Magazine as "one of the most successful advocates for the insurance industry to ever practice" and recently was recognized as a Thought Leader for Insurance & Reinsurance by Who's Who Legal (2018) and named Washington DC Insurance "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers (2017). Laura represents clients in a variety of litigation and counseling matters, including:

•Counseling insurers and reinsurers on strategic opportunities, litigation trends, and emerging risks such as autonomous vehicles and drones, privacy and cyberliability, global warming (climate change), internet-of-things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and utilization of blockchain or distributed-ledger technology.

•Serving as lead counsel in a wide range of complex insurance matters, such as coverage disputes involving rescission, additional insureds, allocation, exhaustion, the duty to defend, settlement obligations, policy conditions and exclusions. Also represents insurers in bad faith and extra-contractual matters.

•Representing clients in both federal and state appellate courts. Has participated in more than 250 appellate cases including key national precedents on insurance issues. Argued before numerous federal circuits and state appellate courts.

•Representing insurance trade associations in a wide variety of matters affecting the business of insurance, including an extensive amicus curiae practice. Also provides technical analysis of insurance issues and analyzes and formulates regulatory and legislative proposals for trade associations and individual clients.

•Assisting in drafting insurance policy forms and endorsements, offering strategic suggestions and form language to meet product goals and regulatory requirements. Particular focus on cyber privacy and data security exposures, including stand-alone cyber, professional liability, and general liability policies. Drawing on the experience of the firm’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Group, monitor and analyze cyber-related claims and coverage issues.

•Contributing to pro bono and community service activities.

In addition to her litigation and counseling work described above, Laura represents insurers in arbitrations, as well as Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and mediation proceedings. She handles multi-party negotiations involving private claimants, multiple carriers, and insureds. Laura also assists in drafting insurance policy forms and endorsements, offering strategic suggestions and form language to meet product goals and regulatory requirements.

Laura served as the insurance industry liaison to the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law on Liability Insurance Project, a first-of-its-kind project commissioned to reaffirm the most sound legal rules on a wide range of insurance liability issues. A former co-chair of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation Section, Laura is praised by Chambers USA as "a highly experienced appellate lawyer" who frequently handles "novel and ground-breaking cases" and "knows coverage issues A-Z" (2016). Laura is regularly rated by Chambers USA as one of Washington's "Leading Lawyers" for insurers in commercial insurance work, is included in the Best Lawyers in America directory for insurance law, and has been named one of Washington's "Top 100 Lawyers" (2012-2018), "Top 50 Women Lawyers" (2009, 2011-2018), "Top 10 Lawyers" (2015), and "Super Lawyers" for Insurance Coverage (2008-2018), among many other honors.

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Crowell & Moring offers the insurance industry unsurpassed breadth and depth of experience in navigating the many challenges that insurers face in today’s marketplace. We understand those challenges and how they are changing with advances in technology and new business models. And we understand the complexities and interrelationships inherent to an industry that assumes, in one way or another, most of the financial risks of an increasingly global society. Our lawyers are litigators and dealmakers; trial lawyers and settlement professionals; advocates and strategic advisors. Our experience spans all of the major industry segments—life, health, property-casualty—and all of the lines of business—insurance, reinsurance, captives, runoffs, SPVs. We offer a team of lawyers specifically dedicated to the representation of the insurance industry in all its facets and variations. And we believe that our team, along with colleagues we can draw from closely affiliated practice areas at the firm, allows us to help insurance industry clients navigate any terrain they may need to traverse. From start-ups to established industry players, our insurance and reinsurance team helps our clients successfully meet the full range of challenges facing insurers today.

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Alternative Dispute Resolution
Appellate Advocacy
Director & Officers Liability
Insurance Law
Professional Liability

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