Laura A Foggan

Laura Foggan serves as chair of Crowell & Moring LLP’s Insurance/Reinsurance Group. Laura counsels insurers and reinsurers on strategic opportunities, litigation trends, and emerging risks such as COVID-19, 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. She serves as national coordinating counsel and lead litigation counsel in a wide range of complex insurance matters, such as first and third-party coverage disputes involving rescission, additional insureds, allocation, bad faith and extra-contractual claims, the duty to defend, settlement obligations, policy conditions and exclusions. Laura also has an active practice representing insurance trade associations in a wide variety of matters affecting the business of insurance, including an extensive amicus curiae practice. She is an experienced appellate practitioner and has participated in over 200 appeals nationwide in both federal and state appellate courts. Laura also assists in drafting insurance policy forms and endorsements, offering strategic suggestions and form language to meet product goals and regulatory requirements. Besides her litigation and counseling work described above, Laura represents insurers and reinsurers in arbitrations, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and mediation proceedings.