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Tina Newsome-Lee

Insurance LawIslip Terrace, New York

About Tina

Tina Newsome-Lee is a legal professional at Travelers whose career has included attorney management and insurance litigation leadership. A 2016 Worldwide Women’s Association announcement placed her in Islip Terrace, New York, and identified her as an associate managing attorney with Travelers Indemnity Company. Her Women We Admire profile, labeled for 2025 and 2026, identifies her as vice president and national practice lead for first-party medical litigation.

Newsome-Lee joined Travelers in 2006 as a team leader. The Women We Admire profile describes responsibility for the operations of a legal office spanning multiple states, including its budget. A separate professional association biography describes her recruitment to lead 13 professionals and her work helping attorneys with case management, strategy and problem-solving. Travelers also features her in a community video transcript under the title managing counsel, Corporate Claim.

She earned a JD from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and an undergraduate degree in English and liberal arts from Lincoln University. In 2017, she earned the CPCU designation; her professional profile also records teaching several courses.

Community involvement appears alongside her legal management work. Her professional association biography lists volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity and Junior Achievement. In the Travelers video, she speaks about the satisfaction of giving back and recognizing possibilities for children’s futures.

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