Elizabeth Dolter

Special Counsel | San Francisco , United States
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Education

  • Indiana University School of Law, JD, 1986
  • University of Illinois, BA, 1983

Elizabeth (Beth) Dolter is special counsel in the San Francisco office, where she advises domestic, European and Bermuda-based insurance companies, as well as numerous syndicates at Lloyd’s, London, on coverage and claim handling issues. 

With over 30 years of experience, Beth focuses her practice on third-party coverage, including professional liability, excess liability, CGL and Bermuda Form policies. She has experience analyzing and litigating complex coverage issues arising out of professional liability including architects, engineers and lawyers, construction, environmental, cyber, sexual misconduct, elder abuse and product liability disputes.

Beth’s first-party work includes disability bad faith suits and property losses. She represents insurers in declaratory judgment and bad faith suits throughout California. In addition, she monitors architects and engineers claims, catastrophic loss claims including wildfires, and provides trial monitoring services for insurers. 

Work highlights

  • Defended an insurer in a bad faith suit arising out of sexual abuse of minors.
  • Represented an insurer in a reimbursement action against an insured seeking rescission.
  • Defended insurers in cyber coverage/bad faith suit.
  • Won summary judgment motion for insurer in a disability bad faith suit.
  • Won dispositive motion in inter-carrier suit arising out of switched embryos during in vitro fertilization.
  • Won summary judgment motion for insurer on the duty to defend an aviation suit.
  • Won motion for judgment on the pleadings in a $10 million duty to defend case, with no discovery.

Report decisions

  • Safeco Ins. Co. v. Gibson, 211 Cal. App. 3d 176 (1989)

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