Esther Y. Kim

Esther is a senior associate in the Insurance Recovery Group, focusing her practice on representing corporate, commercial, and residential policyholders in disputes with insurance companies. She works primarily with Commercial General Liability (CGL), Professional Errors and Omissions (E&O), Directors and Officers liability (D&O) and first-party property policies, providing coverage opinions, counseling, and dispute resolution. Esther serves well-known clients in the banking and financial institutions, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, transportation and energy sectors, as well as religious institutions and small and medium sized businesses. In law school, Esther was a judicial intern to the Honorable Pamela K. Chen of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York.

Esther serves as co-chair of the Insurance Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Experience

Representative matters

Assisted with a multi-million-dollar settlement on behalf of a large financial institution under its professional liability policy for the defense and settlement of lawsuits relating to securities lending.

Assisted with a settlement on behalf of a large energy company under its commercial general liability policy for the defense of an underlying lawsuit claiming bodily injury.

Contributed to a successful motion for summary judgment regarding an insurance company’s duty to defend a policyholder in an underlying lawsuit claiming bodily injury under a commercial general liability policy.