Heather Adams has served the Connecticut insurance community for the entirety of her career. She started her career as a litigation attorney for a National insurance company based in Hartford. After several years and a wealth of trial experience, she moved to private litigation firms and came to Conway Stoughton in 2013 where she has worked to further diversify her practice and better serve her clients. As a civil litigation attorney, she has developed experience meeting a multitude of insurance needs which includes coverage analysis and strategic response, along with review and recommendations for policy changes. Heather has also defended carriers and their insureds in a wide variety of matters, including bad faith, coverage disputes, unfair trade and insurance practice claims. She also counsels carriers in regulatory matters before the Connecticut Insurance Department.
Heather has a wealth of knowledge and experience in understanding and applying property coverage which she has utilized in a number of contexts. Attorney Adams was deeply involved in the “crumbling foundation” cases that impacted a large portion of Northeastern Connecticut and was able to minimize the exposure to regional carriers through collaboration with the defense bar. She has also used this experience to assist carriers in the adjustment and resolution of property losses. She is also often called upon to assist in claims investigations.
This diversity of experience has also served Heather well in the development of her extensive subrogation practice. She is regularly called upon to protect and pursue insurers subrogation rights, many times from the time the loss is reported, in matters including automobile claims, worker’s compensation subrogation, large water and fire losses and defective and deficient construction claims. She has tried numerous cases to verdict in both the state and federal courts, and has effectively achieved satisfactory results for clients through alternative dispute resolution. Heather has argued before the Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts, even making new law with the Connecticut Supreme Court’s acceptance of the “alternative theory of liability” doctrine as set forth in Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency v. Christopher Jackson, et al. 333 Conn. 206; 214 A.3d 841
- Chosen as a Connecticut Super Lawyer®: Rising StarsList: 2010-2012
- Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency v. Christopher Jackson, et al. 333 Conn. 206; 214 A.3d 841
- Metropolitan Property & Casualty v. Deere and Co,302 Conn. 123
- Roman v. City of Bristol,101 Conn.App. 491, 922 A.2d 310
- Middlesex Mutual Assurance v. Marguerite Komondy,120 Conn.App. 117
- Metropolitan v. Deere & Co, et al,2008 WL 366746 (Wagner, J.)
- Vento v. Safeco Ins. Co. of America,2006 WL 2053606 July 6, 2006 (Shaban, J.)