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Marialuisa (“ML”) Gallozzi helps clients develop and execute efficient and practical insurance recovery strategies that have yielded more than $400 million in recoveries.
Ms. Gallozzi represents a wide range of companies, trade associations and nonprofit organizations. Through negotiation or mediation, she has achieved more than 100 confidential bilateral and multiparty settlements of underlying liability claims and insurance coverage claims against domestic, foreign and insolvent insurers and state guaranty funds. These settlements have included first-party coverage for flood, collapse, storm, crime/employee dishonesty and product contamination losses, and third-party coverage for asbestos, pharmaceutical, implantable medical devices, product recall, environmental, D&O and other liabilities.
Chambers USA reports that sources describe Ms. Gallozzi as “incredibly good at complex settlement structures” and praise her knowledge and experience in dealing with general liability insurance coverage disputes.
Ms. Gallozzi frequently provides strategic advice to clients on purchasing new or renewal insurance coverage tailored to their business needs and on insurance rights and assets in mergers and acquisitions. She is also one of the leads for Covington’s Strategic Risk and Crisis Management initiative, where she helps clients plan for and navigate crisis events, including product recalls.
Ms. Gallozzi maintains an active pro bono practice and lectures frequently at CLE programs and in law schools.
Representative Matters
Insurance Coverage
- Represented professional services company in negotiating settlement of multiple litigations involving several guaranty associations and an insolvent insurer.
- Represents a pharmaceutical company on coverage for mass tort claims.
- Represents multiple organizations in obtaining coverage for earthquake-related damage to historic buildings.
- Developed an innovative coverage theory and recovered millions from first party and third party insurers who had sued to rescind coverage for losses in connection with an international food recall.
- Represented a major American food supplier in complex novation transaction involving workers compensation policies.
- Advised several drug and food manufacturers on recovery of recall-related losses under first party and specialty product recall policies.
- Negotiated multi-million dollar settlements with insolvent insurers for a drug manufacturer and a utility.
- Advised food manufacturers on the procurement of specialty coverage for contamination and tampering risks.
- Advised biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies and clinical trials organization on coverage under clinical trials policies.
- Secured a policy limits recovery for an employee dishonesty loss suffered by a nonprofit.
- Represented a financial services company in recovering for its property and business interruption losses caused by the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Honors and Rankings
- Fellow, American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel
- Chambers USA, leading Insurance - Policyholder lawyer
- Best Lawyers in America
- Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, Legal Media Group/Euromoney
- The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers
- Washington DC Super Lawyers
- Washingtonian, Best Lawyers
- Charles F.C. Ruff Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year (2004)
Pro Bono
- Counsel to D.C. Appleseed in administrative proceeding and successful appeal concerning legal obligations of a D.C. health insurer.
- District of Columbia Superior Court, Civil Mediator (1997-2009) and Child Protection Mediator (2004-2009)
- National Head Start Association, 25th Anniversary Star Honoree
Publications and Speeches
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