Rachel Snow Kindseth

Counsel

Biography

Rachel Snow Kindseth is Counsel in the firm’s Connecticut office, where she focuses her practice on representing policyholders in complex insurance coverage litigation. Rachel has handled coverage claims involving commercial liability, products liability, property damage, and business interruption.  Rachel has significant experience in high-stakes insurance matters involving a variety of coverage issues, including allocation, exhaustion, other insurance, and excess coverage.

Rachel earned her Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she served as Executive Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law and was a member of the Moot Court Board. Rachel is a past-President of the Junior League of Greater New Haven and continues to volunteer with the Junior League and other community organizations.  She enjoys vacationing in Maine where she has family roots.

Experience

Rachel has extensive experience prosecuting coverage actions in state and federal courts and is involved in all stages of litigation.  She has both jury and bench trial experience.  In addition to her trial court experience, Rachel has drafted appellate briefs for cases before the Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Insights by Rachel Snow Kindseth

Course of Construction Exclusions and the CGL Policy

I.  Course of Construction Exclusions  Course of Construction (“COC”) exclusions are found on General Liability and excess liability policies, typically a wrap-up or project specific policy, and generally exclude “all property damage occurring during the course of construction.” Insurers claim COC exclusions are not problematic because they are intended to prevent an overlap in coverage […]
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Admissions

Connecticut
U.S. District Court, District Court of Connecticut
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit