Source: https://www.peabodyarnold.com/attorney/tamara-smith-holtslag/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 20:35:26+00:00

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Tamara is a civil litigator and insurance coverage lawyer. Over the past 22 years, she has developed a particular expertise in handling complex insurance matters and insurance coverage litigation, advising clients on insurance coverage and best claims handling practices, and defending professional liability and various business and contract claims. She represents clients in the courts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, including the state business courts and federal courts, and in private arbitration. She has extensive experience representing insurers in declaratory judgment actions involving interpretation of policy language and determinations of coverage. Tamara has successfully appealed matters before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Tamara counsels clients daily on insurance coverage issues, avoidance of bad faith claims, and other issues of insurance contract interpretation that often implicate the laws of various states across the nation.
Tamara is presently working on various projects relating to the intersection of Insurance and the Gig Economy, and will be speaking on these issues before the New Hampshire Bar Association in November 2018 and at the American Bar Association’s 27th Annual Midyear Meeting of the Tort and Insurance Practice’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee in Phoenix, Arizona in February 2019.
Tamara is a frequent speaker on insurance coverage issues for the benefit of her clients and fellow practitioners. She is also the Chair of the Insurance Law Section (2013 – present) of the New Hampshire Bar Association, a position that she has continually held since she petitioned the NHBA to establish the Insurance Law Section in 2012.
Faculty (upcoming), American Bar Association, 27th Annual Midyear Meeting of the Tort and Insurance Practice’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee: “Developments in InsurTech and Insurance Coverage Issues Presented by the Sharing/Gig Economy,” February 21-23, 2019, Phoenix, Arizona.
Faculty (upcoming), New Hampshire Bar Association CLE: “Emerging Insurance Risks & Business Concerns in the Sharing Economy,” November 7, 2018, Concord, NH.
Philadelphia Indem. Ins. Co. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, (Suffolk Superior, 2017) (summary judgment granted for client in coverage action interpreting Employer Liability/Worker’s Compensation Policy).
Iodice Family Limited Liability Company d/b/a Look Ahead and Haley Charest as Assignee of Iodice Family Limited Liability Company d/b/a Look Ahead v. The Commerce Insurance Company and Western World Insurance Company (N.H. Super. Ct. No. 217-2015-CV-00126)(obtained summary judgment for client on various coverage grounds).
Resolved multi-million-dollar insurance coverage fee dispute for commercial insurer client; case in Arbitration concerned the defense of an underlying antitrust action against large healthcare company.
Obtained voluntary dismissal of insurance coverage suit brought against insurer client seeking over $1 million in damages. The case involved “related claims” issues in the claims-made insurance context.
Lexington Ins. Co. v. United Health Group Inc., United Health Group Incorporated et al. (D. Mass. 2011)(obtained summary judgment for client in an insurance coverage action alleging over $28 million in damages under claims made managed care organization liability policy).
National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co., 385 F.3d 47 (1st Cir. 2004)(persuaded the First Circuit Court of Appeals to rule in favor of client, who insured a general contractor on a major construction project; decision dealt with “additional insured” obligations and “other insurance” provisions).
Persuaded panel at binding arbitration to reject claim against insurer client that it owed architectural firm over $1 million in coverage for damages associated with construction of a Casino in Colorado.
Sobeida Feliz v. Brian McNeill, M.D., United States, on Behalf of Tori Robinson, M.D. and Lawrence Hulefeld, M.D. (1st Cir. 2012)(unpublished)(obtained dismissal of a suit against physician client in federal court for the plaintiff’s failure to properly serve him abroad under The Hague Convention).
Amy Santangelo v. Wight, Century 21 Realty et al. (Mass. Super. Ct. 2005)(prevailed at trial on behalf of real estate agency clients; case alleged breach of a contract to purchase real estate).
Obtained $1.6 million settlement for a father and son grievously injured.

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