Kami Quinn has broad experience recovering insurance proceeds for mass tort liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, financial fraud, property damage and business interruption primarily in complex, multi-party disputes.  Kami has also advised many clients with respect to strategies for insurance recovery in asbestos-related bankruptcies.  Kami’s practice emphasizes early evaluation of litigation risk and consensual resolutions where possible.  Indeed, in many of Kami’s cases insurers have been persuaded to rescind coverage denials or pay claims without the need for litigation.  Kami also regularly evaluates complex insurance portfolios to assist clients in avoiding future disputes with carriers and to assure that the coverage potentially available is consistent with the client’s understanding of the risk transferred.  Kami has also provided advice and counseling to a number of clients (typically potential transferors or transferees of insurance coverage) seeking to value disputed or potentially disputed insurance assets. 

Some of Kami’s recent matters include:

• Securing tens of millions of dollars through settlement with insurance companies on behalf of various mass tort defendant companies

• Securing tens of millions of dollars through settlement with various insurance companies on behalf of bankruptcy trusts created for the benefit of personal injury claimants

• Advice to a national non-profit organization with respect to recovery from insurers of amounts spent in the successful defense of the organization’s public education campaign

• Advice to successor to Fortune 500 company concerning its global strategy for insurance recovery and litigation of certain insurer disputes

• Counsel to asbestos creditor committees in bankruptcy cases with respect to securing CGL insurance coverage

• Advice and counsel to food products company concerning business interruption and property damage coverage available in connection with recall of potentially contaminated products

• Advice to property developer with respect to recovery for tens of millions in alleged construction defects in hotel development

Kami also has an active pro bono practice, which has included securing emergency potentially life-saving care for a breast cancer patient.  In addition, she has worked with the American Civil Liberties Union to secure a recovery for alleged police brutality and has provided pro bono analysis existing coverage portfolios for a number of nonprofit organizations. Kami has also co-authored amici brief to the United States Supreme Court with other Gilbert LLP lawyers related to the Affordable Care Act.

Kami has authored of a number of articles on insurance-related topics.

Community Activities

• Co-chair of the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia’s Generous Associates Campaign 2005, 2006 and 2007
• Member, Washington Area Women’s Foundation Leadership Awards Committee
• Co-founder and Co-Chair, Washington Area Women’s Foundation 10K Club
• Member, DC Bar Foundation’s Young Lawyers Network

• Insurance Subcommittee of the ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee, Vice-Chair

• Selected as a Washington, DC Rising Star (Super Lawyers), 2013

• Illinois Appeals Court Reaffirms Zurich v. Raymark, Strengthens All Sums Precedent Under Illinois Law, We've Got You Covered - Insurance Law Blog, March 19, 2013
• How to Avoid Turning a Settlement with Your Primary Insurer Into a “Get Out of Jail Free” Card for Your Excess Insurer – The Qualcomm Dilemma, We've Got You Covered - Insurance Law Blog, March 4, 2013
• Unsettling the Asbestos Dust, BNA Insights, February 18, 2013
• Insurance Coverage for Wage & Hour Claims Arising Out of Superstorm Sandy, We've Got You Covered - Insurance Law Blog, November 7, 2012
• Employing insurance: Coverage for employee wage-and-hour suits, Westlaw Journal Insurance Coverage, September 21, 2012
• GIT and Its Impact on Insurer Standing in Mass Tort Bankruptcy Cases
• Fracking Risk and the Nationwide Underwriting Guidelines, We've Got You Covered - Insurance Law Blog, July 24, 2012
• Companies With Formaldehyde Risks Should Consider Insurance Issues Sooner, Not Later, We've Got You Covered: Insurance Law Blog, July 11, 2012
• Rethinking Common Wisdom Of 'Wage And Hour' Insurance, Law360, May 2012
• Be Careful What You Wish For, You Just Might GIT It, Law360, June 7, 2011
• Managing the Risks of Chinese Manufacturing and Imports, The Corporate Counselor, June 1, 2008
• Protecting Against Product Liability and Recalls, Risk & Insurance, April 15, 2008
• Plan Response to Food Crisis, California Farmer, April 9, 2007
• Protecting Your Company From Consumer Protection Claims, The Corporate Counselor, March 30, 2007

• Annual Meeting of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, October 27, 2012
• The Modern Risk Management Function: Transformative Technology for Certificate, Policy and Claim Management, April 18, 2012
• Transformative Technology for Claims and Insurance Management: Are We Doing All That We Should To Inform and Support the Risk Management Community?, March 8, 2012
• ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee Spring Meeting, April 14, 2011
• Insurance Coverage Litigation Commitee CLE Seminar, March 3, 2011

• Gilbert LLP Partner Kami Quinn Named to DC Bar Foundation’s Young Lawyers Network, June 20, 2012
• Employment practice insurance might cover wage-and-hour defense costs, Home Channel News, June 1, 2012
• DJ Smaller Asbestos Producers Stung By Bankruptcy's Legal Shield, Dow Jones Bankruptcy Review, August 23, 2010