Susan White is an experienced commercial litigation attorney with a specialty in insurance recovery.  Ms. White represents corporate and individual policyholders and has recovered millions in insurance proceeds on their behalf in all types of complex litigation against their insurers.  She is able to think out of the box, using creative and strategic approaches to both find and maximize insurance coverage for her policyholder clients.

Throughout her 30 years of practice, she regularly has represented a wide variety of clients on numerous insurance coverage issues and has resolved complex insurance matters through settlement, arbitration or trial.  Ms. White has extensive experience with complex insurance matters, which include:

• directors and officers liability
• employment practices liability
• data breach and privacy issues
• errors and omissions liability
• fiduciary liability
• general liability, including property damage, bodily injury, and personal and advertising injury liability
• crime/employee theft
• first party property loss, including for business interruption and extra expense

Ms. White counsels clients operating in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, software and Internet technology, financial services, entertainment, and real estate.

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Loyola Law School, J.D., cum laude
• Wheaton College, B.A.

• Buchalter COVID-19 Client Alert: Stop the Clock: Relief from Your Insurer Claiming a Notice Time Bar During the Pandemic

  By Susan P. White |July 2021

• California Supreme Court holds that "Notice-Prejudice Rule" Is a "Fundamental Public Policy" of California for the Purpose of Choice of Law Determination
• Buchalter Client Alert COVID 19: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Checklist
• Buchalter Client Alert COVID-19: Opposite Sides of the Table: Restaurants Seek Recovery From Insurers for Business Interruption in the Wake of COVID-19
• Ninth Circuit Sharply Curtails Excess Insurers' Ability to Challenge Propriety of Primary's Exhaustion in AXIS Reinsurance Co. v. Northrop Grumman Corp.
• Challenging Insurer Imposed Rate Limits
• Buchalter COVID-19 Client Alert: Stop the Clock: Relief from Your Insurer Claiming a Notice Time Bar During the Pandemic
• Susan White, Speaker on CLE Strafford Webinar
• Susan White, Presenter at Bet Tzedek and City of South Gate Webinar
• Strafford Publications, Inc. Webinar-Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation: Depositions of Insurance Claims Handlers or Representatives
• Lorman Education Services Webinar: Tricks of the Trade: Maximizing Your Company's Corporate Liability Coverage and Minimizing Any Obstacles
• Pincus Webinar: Understanding the Legal Impact of Covid-19 as it Affects Your Clients, Your Life and Your Business
• Strafford Webinar: Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation-Depositions
• Buchalter Webinar: Navigating Insurance Resolutions: A Comprehensive New Year’s Presentation Unveiling Solutions to Policyholder Challenges
• Webinar: Bad Faith Insurance Litigation in CA
• Buchalter Webcast: Understanding and Not Fearing Covid 19 As It Affects Your Life and Business
• Buchalter Webcast: Managing Insurance Claims, Policies, and Litigation during COVID 19
• HELP - I JUST LOST MY HOME AND/OR BUSINESS DUE TO THE LOS ANGELES WILDFIRES: Steps To Help Recover Your Insurance Benefits