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Dianne J. Meconis joined Rudloff Wood & Barrows LLP at its inception. With a wealth of knowledge and experience in complex insurance coverage issues, Ms. Meconis provides prompt, efficient and common sense advice to clients on claims involving a broad range of coverages. She also successfully defends the firm's insurance clients in coverage and "bad faith" litigation. She has obtained judgment for carriers short of trial in a wide variety of cases through strategic use of dispositive motions in federal and state courts. Her summary judgment successes include proving that an insurer's good faith attempts to settle multiple claims under a low limit automobile policy precluded extra-contractual exposure of well over a million dollars; that a carrier had no duty to defend a sexual harassment case, and therefore, had no duty to reimburse the insured for defense costs and settlement of half a million dollars and that there was no duty to defend a former employee in an action brought against him by his former employer for misappropriation of confidential information. She also enjoyed success in the appellate arena on duty to defend cases and property insurance, business interruption cases. Ms. Meconis is a 1985 graduate of the University of California at San Francisco, Hastings College of Law. She graduated cum laude and is a member of the Thurston Society and was elected to the Order of Coif. While at Hastings, she was an extern to the California Supreme Court. Upon graduation, she took a clerkship with Chief Magistrate Frederick J. Woelflen of the United States District Court, Northern District of California. She received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan with distinction in 1979.
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