Reformation of Insurance Policies: Expanding or Reducing Coverage, Grounds for Relief, Defenses, Standards of Proof

Ms. Couture is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s Austin office. She joined the firm in 2021 after graduating from the University of Texas School of Law as a member of the Chancellor Society. While in law school Ms. Couture worked on the Supreme Court clinic and was a Teaching Quizmaster.

Ms. Gilmore, Chair of the firm’s National Insurance Recovery Practice, is an accomplished litigator with an expertise in structured finance, securities and insurance recovery litigation. She has represented policyholders against nearly every major insurer and in a wide range of coverage matters, including coverage for both first-party and third-party losses and liabilities. Ms. Gilmore has recovered well over $2 billion in verdicts, judgments and settlements. She also represents plaintiffs in her structured finance and securities practice and has appeared against nearly every major financial institution, including in over 20 pending and resolved cases involving mortgage-backed securities.

Ms. Raschke has spent her legal career representing commercial insurance clients in complex coverage disputes. She partners with her clients, developing close relationships with them, and enabling the collaboration that best serves their unique needs. Depending on the case or client, the approach could range from pre-litigation counseling, to alternative dispute resolution, through discovery, summary judgment briefing, and trial. Ms. Raschke has significant experience representing commercial insurers in sophisticated first-party property coverage matters and other complex coverage disputes involving directors and officers liability insurance, errors and omissions liability insurance, professional liability insurance, comprehensive general liability insurance, financial institution bonds, and bad faith litigation. She regularly speaks and authors articles regarding the commercial insurance industry and she is a past chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section's Property Insurance Law Committee.