California Insurance Lawyers

Insurance Law

2029 Century Park East, 300, Los Angeles, CA 90067

Alice Kyureghian handles complex litigation matters in the areas of insurance recovery, as well as commercial contract and indemnification-related disputes. Her practice primarily focuses on representing individual and corporate policyholders in disputes with their insurance providers.

Insurance Law

21775 Deer Grass Dr, Escondido, CA 92029, USA

Garrett Smee is a Partner in the San Diego office of Resnick & Louis P.C. Mr. Smee is a member of the firm’s General Liability, Employment & Labor and Estate Planning Practice Groups. His practice typically involves defense in high exposure matters involving employment and labor, and personal injury matters that often result from catastrophic injuries. His current and former clients include Fortune 500 companies, insurance companies, public and municipal entities (and their employees), closely held businesses and private individuals. Mr. Smee has served as trial counsel in over 45 trials (19 jury) in state and federal courts throughout California. He effectively handles his matters from inception and pre-litigation strategy through law and motion, discovery, trial and the appellate process. Three of Mr. Smee’s employment verdicts resulted in success with the California Fourth District Court of Appeal, one of which resulted in a published opinion – Willis v. City of Carlsbad (2020) 48 Cal. App. 5th 1104. He has achieved reversals of two trial court final judgments, one of which went to the United States 9th Circuit Court of Appeals – Atkins v. Mabus (9th Cir. 2016) No. 14-56087 (see also, Curiél-Aguirre v. County of Imperial (2015) D066366.) His first civil jury trial also resulted in a published opinion – Yacoub v. Talia (2014) 79 C.C.C. 409. Mr. Smee played baseball at Point Loma Nazarene University on athletic and academic scholarships – graduating cum laude. He attended California Western School of Law on a full-tuition merit scholarship – graduating magna cum laude and serving as an Editor on Law Review. Since the Spring of 2022, he has served as an Adjunct Professor at Western Sierra Law School in Oceanside, where he teaches 4 unit classes in civil Remedies and Criminal Procedure. Mr. Smee lives with his wife of 24 years and three children in Escondido, California. He attends Emmanuel Faith Community Church. On the weekends, he also enjoys golfing with his family, fishing with his son, and watching baseball and college football. Mr. Smee is licensed to practice law in the State of California.

Insurance Law

800 N. Haven Ave, Suite 430, Ontario, CA 91764

Heather N. Seigler is a Partner in the Irvine office of Resnick & Louis, P.C. and has extensive litigation experience in insurance defense, including car accidents, premises liability, wrongful death, SIU, public entity, products liability, tractor-trailer accidents, first party cases such as uninsured/underinsured motorist cases, wrongful death and elder abuse cases. Heather’s experience includes the analysis and litigation of complex injury cases, including catastrophic injury. Before joining Resnick & Louis, Heather gained valuable experience working in-house for an insurance company where she successfully tried 7 cases to verdict, all with positive outcomes for her clients. Heather was named Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2016 at her firm. She then honed her craft working as panel counsel for a number of insurance companies, self-insured companies, major trucking companies, and several fortune 500 grocery chains. While there, Heather tried an alleged multi-million-dollar trial involving an amputated limb and alleged complex regional pain syndrome which included numerous experts and several weeks of trial. Again, Heather received a verdict that was a positive outcome for her clients. Heather then took an opportunity to work on the plaintiff side where she gained valuable experience learning from the “other side” and taking numerous expert and treating doctor depositions. She quickly grew to learn that plaintiff’s side work was less rewarding. Prior to beginning litigation work, Heather spent her first two years as a member of the bar working in academia as an Academic Support Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Whittier Law School. Through the duration of her career Heather has continued to have a passion for education and has taught dozens of MCLE courses on various aspects of litigation including People v. Sanchez, Voir Dire, wrongful death cases, hip injuries from car accidents, bad faith, and elimination of bias. Heather Seigler has four and a half years of experience working on high profile, multimillion dollar sex abuse cases. Her experience in these cases has run the gamut of complex pre-litigation workup involving confidential settlements, including high stakes confidential in-person mediations, to trial work-up. She has been involved in several confidential cases that have involved settlements of waiver of costs to 15 million dollars+ settlements due to the nature of the case. Her cases have also included liability disputes and value disputes for which there was lack of causation or involvement arguments. Her clients have included religious entities, community entities, school districts, and other nonprofit or for profit organizations providing services to the community. Heather is very familiar with the incredibly sensitive nature in which these matters must be handled. There is a certain manner of professionalism and civility that must be maintained in order to successfully litigate these cases. She has never had difficulty in broaching the vulnerability of these cases on all sides and has had all positive outcomes—be it pre-litigation or due to litigation—to settle or litigate these matters successfully. Prior to graduating from law school, Heather received her B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2007. While there she received the Class of 1939 Scholarship and participated in Varsity Softball. She then went on to earn the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and received her J.D. from Whittier Law School, with Certificate in Legal Writing magna cum laude in 2011. She was an Associate Editor of Law Review and also a member of the Public Interest Law Foundation. She also worked as a teacher’s assistant in Contracts, Torts, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Law, all while working off campus in retail. She published an article within At Issue: Medical Malpractice with Gale Academic OneFile. She also successfully published The People v. Indiana Lumbermens, Mutual Insurance Company, Case No. E050297 (CA Dist. 4 Ct. App., Div. 2, Apr. 7, 2011) via a Request for Publication during an externship with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. She also took part in the prestigious Los Angeles Superior Court Summer Judicial Extern Program under the Honorable Mark Borenstein. When Heather is not working, she enjoys hiking the Back Bay in Newport Beach, cycling, snowboarding, audiobooks, her three cats Babou, Eleanor, and Kahlua, her Standard Poodle Lana, Sci-Fi, Maui, trying new foods, and traveling. She is also a member of the Riverside Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association, San Bernardino Bar Association, Western San Bernardino Bar Association, and American Bar Association. Heather is licensed to practice in California.

Insurance Law

6 Havenhurst Drive, Coto De Caza, CA 92679

Lena M. Louis is co-founder of Resnick & Louis, P.C. and has been working in the fields of construction defect, professional liability, bodily injury, transportation defense, automobile liability, commercial litigation, construction law and general liability matters since 1995. She concentrates her practice on representing commercial property owners, businesses, developers, general contractors and trade contractors. She also provides business services and represents clients in contract related transactional matters. Lena has extensive experience in both analyzing claims for coverage under advertising injury and personal injury coverage as well as defending contractual and extra-contractual claims against clients under these coverage. She has represented several personal injury and advertising claims including trademark claims. Lena is a “hands-on” lawyer and prides herself in giving personal attention to her clients to obtain the best results possible. She has also participated in representing clients in recovering multi-million dollar settlements in California and was recently granted California Supreme Court review in a case involving the effect of repressed memory on statutes of limitations in California. Lena also provides risk management services to her clients, which have helped her clients avoid significant claims. Through Lena’s counsel, an Arizona developer resolved a potential lengthy and costly complex construction defect suit prior to the initiation of discovery with zero recovery to the plaintiffs. Lena has handled hundreds of cases in California, Nevada, and Arizona. Lena is licensed to practice law in the states of Arizona, California, and Nevada, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.