Lisa L. Fitzpatrick
Partner
Lisa L. Fitzpatrick has helped insurers and businesses navigate complex coverage and potential bad faith issues with clarity and precision for several years. Clients turn to her for practical guidance in resolving coverage issues, including duty to defend determinations, and assessing coverage exposures before they escalate.
Lisa has advised insurers in matters involving both first-party and third-party claims, as well as claims for additional insured coverage. She provides strategic analysis and counsel with respect to various types of insurance, including general liability insurance, professional liability insurance, property insurance, and commercial auto insurance. Her experience spans claims and disputes involving:
- Construction and design defects
- Product liability
- Property loss
- Auto liability
- Intellectual property infringement
- Employment-related claims
- Breach of privacy
Before focusing her practice on insurance law, Lisa spent several years practicing business law, drafting contracts and guiding clients through a range of commercial transactions.
After graduating with distinction from the University of Virginia with a degree in English, Lisa attended the University of Texas School of Law. She graduated with honors in 2002.
- Provided coverage analysis and defense in connection with various third-party construction defect claims, including claims of widespread defects affecting a large mixed-use community development.
- Analyzed insurers’ obligations to defend potential additional insureds in complex matters involving commercial auto liability, construction defects, and products liability.
- Prepared coverage opinions analyzing third-party claims against architects, engineers, and construction professionals under professional liability policies.
- Prepared coverage opinions for insurers in a series of third-party, products liability claims alleging bodily injury and property damage resulting from exploding vape products.
- Represented insurers in disputed first-party property claims involving hurricane-related property damage.
- Analyzed coverage issues and insurers’ duty to defend in a complex dispute involving professional liability issues and contractual obligations arising from a California wildfire
Key Matters
- Provided coverage analysis and defense in connection with various third-party construction defect claims, including claims of widespread defects affecting a large mixed-use community development.
- Analyzed insurers’ obligations to defend potential additional insureds in complex matters involving commercial auto liability, construction defects, and products liability.
- Prepared coverage opinions analyzing third-party claims against architects, engineers, and construction professionals under professional liability policies.
- Prepared coverage opinions for insurers in a series of third-party, products liability claims alleging bodily injury and property damage resulting from exploding vape products.
- Represented insurers in disputed first-party property claims involving hurricane-related property damage.
- Analyzed coverage issues and insurers’ duty to defend in a complex dispute involving professional liability issues and contractual obligations arising from a California wildfire