New Haven
Email: estewart@murthalaw.com
Phone: 203-772-7710
Fax: 203-772-7723
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Elizabeth J. Stewart
Ms. Stewart is the managing partner of the firm.
She also practices as a trial lawyer, principally handing policyholder-side insurance coverage and complex commercial litigation. She recovers insurance proceeds and defense costs for policyholders facing large exposures and liabilities. The policies at issue have covered directors and officers, environmental, construction, products liability, property, business interruption and employment claims. Ms. Stewart has secured defense costs, judgments and settlements both through negotiations and lawsuits. She is a member of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association and the Executive Committee of the Insurance Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.
Ms. Stewart also handles other types of complex commercial disputes, including antitrust and unfair trade practice claims, securities, RICO, breach of contract and various business tort cases. In many of these cases, Ms. Stewart has gone to court at the outset to obtain or block an injunction or a prejudgment remedy. When it is in the best interest of her clients, Ms. Stewart has tried these cases to verdict. She also has resolved matters through arbitration, mediation and informal settlement discussions.
Ms. Stewart is the co-chair of the Federal Practice Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, in which she works with the District of Connecticut judges. She also is a Special Master for securities law matters for the District of Connecticut. Ms. Stewart was the chair of the firm's litigation department from 1998 through 2006. She is a member of the firm's E-Discovery Practice Group and helped draft the District of Connecticut's Local Rules on E-Discovery.
Publications
- Co-Author: "Oops, I Want That Back: Clawing Back Privileged Documents and New Federal Rule of Evidence 502" Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance, Vol. 23, No. 20, March 26, 2009
- Author: "Who Pays for Successful Denial of Coverage Claims?" The Connecticut Law Tribune, May 2007
