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2345 Grand Blvd.
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Kansas City, MO 64108

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Stacy M. Andreas

Experience
Stacy is a member in Lathrop & Gage's Kansas City, Missouri office. She practices in the area of insurance coverage law.

For fourteen years, Stacy has been assisting business policyholders and brokers throughout the United States with the resolution of difficult insurance coverage claims. She also counsels businesses regarding various aspects of their insurance programs.

Stacy designs and implements unique claims resolution processes to help efficiently and cost-effectively resolve even the most complex, multi-year and multi-party insurance disputes without litigation. Stacy's broad-based knowledge of insurance law and policies, as well as her experience negotiating with most of the major carriers in the United States, allows her to devote her practice to resolving all types of large-dollar and complex insurance claims. Stacy has particular expertise with difficult issues such as insolvent coverage, self-insured retention and deductible issues, and limits issues. She counsels clients and resolves claims for all types of coverage, including general liability and umbrella/excess, employment practices, environmental, directors and officers, professional liability, errors and omissions, fiduciary, fidelity and surety, kidnap and ransom, first-party property, fire, inland and ocean marine, life, health and disability as well as hurricane insurance claims, flood insurance claims, FEMA claims.   Stacy also has experience in conducting and supervising insurance archeology and policy reconstruction.

Although Stacy's practice is devoted to resolving insurance claims without litigation, Stacy also has experience arbitrating and litigating insurance coverage issues in a variety of federal and state courts. Stacy is admitted to practice in the States of Missouri and Kansas and the federal courts in those states, and pro hac vice in many jurisdictions throughout the country.

Stacy is a frequent speaker on all types of insurance topics at seminars sponsored by bar, business and industry groups. She is the author of numerous articles and guest columns and a commentator in a variety of publications.

Education
  • University of Missouri - Columbia, J.D., 1989
  • University of Missouri - Columbia, A.B., with honors, cum laude, 1986
Admissions
  • Kansas, 1990
  • Missouri, 1989
Court Memberships
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
Honors
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Mortar Board
  • Member, Missouri Law Review, 1987-89
Professional Affiliations
  • American Bar Association, Tort and Insurance Practice Section (Annual Meeting Program Committee, June 2000-2001; Editor, Publications Editorial Board, 1996-2000; Editor, Tort and Insurance Law Journal, 1993-1996)
  • The Missouri Bar, Insurance Committee
  • Kansas Bar Association
  • Association of Women Lawyers, Board Member and Vice-Chair, Legislative Issues, 1993-95
  • Phi Beta Kappa Association of Greater Kansas City, Treasurer, 1992-94
  • Missouri Business School Alumni of Greater Kansas City, Secretary and Board Member-Kansas City Chapter, 1995-2001
  • Northland Therapeutic Riding Center, Board Member, 2002-present
Publications
  • Co-Author, Marsh Clients Must Decide Whether to Accept Marsh Settlement by September 20, 2005, Lathrop & Gage Legal Alert (June 2005)
  • Co-Author, The Insurer Versus The Insured:  A Toxic Battle, Corporate Legal Times (May 2004)
  • Internet Opens Employers To Whole New World Of Risk, Kansas City Business Journal (July 24, 2000)
  • Author, Interpleader, Law and Practice of Insurance Coverage Litigation, Ch. 13
  • Supreme Court Ruling Likely to Increase Workers' Claims, 15 Kansas City Business Journal 40 (June 20-26, 1997)
  • Insurance Companies Help With Employment Disputes, Kansas City Business Journal (July 29, 1996)
  • Expired Policies May Cover Environmental Claims, 11 Kansas City Business Journal 40 (June 25-July 1, 1993)
  • Misrepresentation in Insurance Applications: Kansas Law, 62 The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 22 (May 1993)
  • The Misrepresentation Defense in Causal Relation States: A Primer, 26 Tort & Insurance Law Journal (ABA) 832 (Summer 1991)
  • Subsequent Remedial Measures: An Analytical Model for Product Liability Cases, 26 Tort & Insurance Law Journal (ABA) 74 (Fall 1990)
  • Subsequent Remedial Measures: Analysis and Strategy, 18 Product Safety and Liability Reporter (BNA) 604 (May 1990)
  • Co-Author, Law and the Practice of Insurance Coverage, Litigation, (West Group and ABA 2000)
In The News
11/01/2005 Legal Departments Get Aggressive in Pursuing Recoveries
11/01/2005 When Disaster Strikes - What every GC needs to know about business interruption insurance
07/25/2005 Settling Can Stick Businesses with Bill for Future Lawsuits
07/15/2005 Court Ruling May Aid JoCo Companies' Defense in Mass-Tort Case
05/01/2004 Feature on L&G's Insurance Recovery Practice in Corporate Legal Times magazine

Legal Alerts
05/25/2005 Marsh Clients Must Decide Whether to Accept Marsh Settlement by September 20, 2005

Newsletters
10/20/2006 Litigation Newsletter, In-Court Report No. 5 -- Fall 2006
01/27/2006 Lathrop & Gage Trial Technology Focus-Litigation Insert No. 4-Winter 2006
01/27/2006 Litigation Newsletter, In-Court Report No. 4 -- Winter 2006
09/23/2004 Litigation Newsletter, In-Court Report No. 1 -- Fall 2004





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