We feel that the depth of any insuring relationship is never more on display than during a claims experience. Our partnership with the Life Science Specialty team of Western Litigations and Nationwide’s E&S/ Specialty casualty and professional liability claims teams uniquely positions our clients to have access to a roundtable of leading claims professionals rich in experience with Life Science litigation, suits, and claims. Our team focus allows us to quickly and adeptly respond to issues and claims helping to reduce loss costs, restore operations and safeguard our client’s customer relationships.
Extensive Life Science and Healthcare expertise of claims and single occurrence, class action and mass tort litigation in:
“We feel that the depth of any insuring relationship is never more on display than during a claims experience.”
Ryann Elliott, Managing Principal
Sam Terzich
Executive Vice President – Life Sciences Practice Leader
Sam Terzich is an Executive Vice President of Western Litigation (“WL”). Mr. Terzich has been in the claim industry over 25 years and has a background in all types of liability claims. His experience includes excess & surplus lines, reinsurance, and third-party administration on a nationwide basis.
Sam began his career at WLI in 2016. He is a member of WLI’s senior management team and is involved in claim operations, business development, and compliance. Sam directly manages claims for clients who have complex claim issues that require his level of experience.
From 2006 to 2016, Sam was President of ESIS ProClaim, a subsidiary of ESIS, which is a division of Chubb Insurance. In 2010, he led the acquisition efforts of ProClaim, so as to expand the company’s existing platform for services targeted in a variety of specialty claims including life sciences, product liability, environmental, and healthcare professional liability. Sam had operational management responsibility and also functioned as the Practice Group Leader for life sciences, product liability and professional liability – healthcare.
Prior to joining ESIS, Sam was the Executive Vice President of Cambridge Integrated Services and managed pharmaceuticals, healthcare professional liability, architects & engineers, other errors & omissions, product liability, reinsurance, structured settlements, and recovery business units. Sam was also a principal of Sutherland Page & Co., one of the predecessor companies of Cambridge.
Shushanie E.K. Liesinger, Esq., CIPP/US
Claim Lead
Ms. Liesinger holds a Juris Doctorate degree and has over fifteen years of legal and insurance experience that includes handling matters relating to life science; cyber liability; product liability; professional liability/E&O claims; complex insurance coverage issues; and litigation in state and federal courts. In addition, Shushanie is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).
Prior to joining GB Specialty, Shushanie was Senior Claims counsel for Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions, the successor carrier of OneBeacon Insurance Group. In this capacity, she was an integral part of product development efforts in the Technology and Life Sciences division of the company, advising and collaborating with underwriting and business leads on claims, trends, and coverage issues. She was also actively involved with complex coverage issues that arose on general liability, product liability and professional liability claims, ensuring consistency and reasonableness in approach, and handled a variety of complex life sciences liability claims.
Shushanie was also the Cyber Team Lead in her prior role and, in this capacity, she was an integral part of cyber product development efforts company-wide, including in the Technology and Life Sciences divisions. She advised and collaborated with underwriting, risk control, enterprise underwriting, business leads, and upper management on claims, trends, and risks. She was also actively involved with providing training and expertise to international claims teams being created through organic growth and company acquisitions with international reach.
While in private legal practice, Shushanie represented clients from initial consultation to resolution in business litigation disputes, with a focus on products liability defense, E&O/professional liability defense, consumer financial regulations / collections, labor and employment, and real estate and receivership litigation. She managed a large caseload of complex commercial insurance defense and insurance coverage litigation matters, and navigated and advised insurer and insured clients with respect to complex insurance coverage issues.
Her responsibilities involved all aspects of pre-trial litigation, trial preparation, and trial, including: working with expert witnesses; taking depositions; preparing and arguing non-dispositive and dispositive motions; preparing witness and exhibit lists; drafting and responding to motions in limine; and preparing and arguing jury instructions. She tried several complex business disputes to verdict in state and federal courts, and handled complex appellate matters to resolution or decision in state courts, federal appellate courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court, including drafting appellate briefs, motions and other submissions.
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