Heidi K. Hugo, a partner with the Firm, co-manages the coverage and bad faith practice with Mr. Brydon. She has spent most of her legal career handling insurance coverage litigation and providing coverage advice to insurers under virtually all types of policies. She devoted two years representing CNA Insurance Companies exclusively in a broad variety of matters arising in all West Coast jurisdictions gathering valuable in-house experience and insight.

Earlier in her career, Ms. Hugo represented Underwriters at Lloyds in the landmark environmental coverage case, Shell Oil Co. v. Accident & Casualty Ins. Co. of Winterthur, et al. She was involved in all aspects of that case including law and motion and pretrial discovery and work-up. She has litigated declaratory relief, bad faith, and agents and brokers actions, as well as various other insurance contract disputes in all state and federal courts in California. Ms. Hugo is currently representing a major insurance carrier in a coverage and bad faith lawsuit pending in Federal Court in Nevada, involving one of the major casinos in Las Vegas.