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Boston Commercial Litigation Lawyer
Overview
Karen Mariscal is an experienced commercial litigator who serves as insurance coverage and monitoring counsel, focusing on claims under directors and officers, errors and omissions, professional indemnity and employment practices liability policies. She has extensive experience assessing coverage and managing all forms of civil litigation against corporations and their directors and officers, including securities fraud litigation under federal and state laws, investigations by governmental agencies, shareholder derivative suits, professional indemnity claims, employment practices claims and civil rights claims. She is knowledgeable in both national and Massachusetts insurance law, and has extensive experience handling London Market claims and claims involving non-U.S. policyholders.
In addition to insurance coverage work, Karen serves as Massachusetts defense counsel in such areas as complex commercial litigation, asbestos-related litigation and employment litigation.
About Karen B. Mariscal
Current Employment Position(s)
- Counsel
Practice Areas
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Litigation
- Insurance & Reinsurance
- Directors and Officers
- Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith
- Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability Group
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Illinois, 1984
- New York, 1984
- Massachusetts, 1984
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1984
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1984
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1984
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
J.D.
Honors: cum laude
Law Journal: Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1982 - 1984 - Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1981
B.A.
Honors: With Honors
Articles
Published Works
- Excess Insurers Beware: Exhaustion of Underlying Limits May Be Closer Than You Think, December, 2008
Office Information
Address
101 Arch StreetSuite 1930 Boston, MA 02110
Phone
Fax
- (617) 748-5245
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