Janeen Thomas

Janeen Thomas has represented insurers, policyholders, insurance brokers, businesses, and other organizations in complex insurance coverage disputes, commercial litigation, contractual risk transfer matters, and strategic advisory engagements across the United States. Her representative experience includes:

• Advised a commercial real estate client with a $2.9 billion portfolio regarding insurance recovery, contractual risk transfer, and litigation strategy.
• Served as lead coverage strategist in consolidated directors and officers liability litigation involving layered insurance programs and multiple parties, preserving the client’s insurance recovery position through successful motion practice.
• Developed litigation strategy in a complex multi-carrier insurance coverage dispute involving progressive property damage, bad faith allegations, and multiple policy periods.
• Counseled corporate clients regarding representations and warranties insurance and insurance due diligence in connection with complex mergers and acquisitions.
• Developed insurance coverage and settlement strategies in matters involving layered insurance programs and eight- and nine-figure exposures.
• Developed and executed revised briefing strategy in a high-exposure insurance coverage dispute after being brought into the matter mid-litigation to strengthen the client’s position under compressed deadlines.
• Successfully defeated an insurer’s motion to compel production of more than 50,000 pages of privileged communications on behalf of a nonparty insurance broker.
• Obtained summary judgment dismissing all claims against insurance broker defendants in a professional malpractice action arising from builder’s risk insurance coverage.
• Managed a nationwide arbitration program on behalf of a major insurer, coordinating litigation strategy, briefing, and dispute resolution across simultaneous matters throughout the United States.
• Defeated class certification in a putative class action against an insurer while simultaneously resolving a parallel regulatory proceeding before the Maryland Insurance Administration.
• Obtained dismissal of a statutory bad faith claim on behalf of an insurer, eliminating exposure to punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and other extra-contractual remedies.
• Obtained summary judgment establishing that an employee/contractor exclusion barred coverage under a commercial general liability policy.
• Successfully obtained dismissal of claims seeking recovery against commercial general liability insurers arising from alleged faulty workmanship and mold damage.
• Successfully obtained dismissal of a declaratory judgment action involving additional insured coverage and third-party beneficiary claims.
• Successfully established the validity of an insurance policy cancellation at a Framed Issue Hearing, with the judgment affirmed on appeal.
• Authored a successful federal trial brief that formed the basis for dismissal of sixteen false advertising claims in complex commercial litigation.

The matters described above are representative of the work handled by Janeen Thomas throughout her career. Results achieved in prior matters do not guarantee similar outcomes in future engagements.