Clients do not come to Peri Alkas for a cookie-cutter approach to solving their insurance disputes. Insurers seek her out when they have stubborn problems that require creative, tailored methods to meet their needs.
A courtroom veteran, Peri has taken more than 65 civil and criminal cases to trial. She practices primarily in insurance, with experience in first-party claims, insurance bad faith and extra-contractual litigation. She often provides insurers with complex claims-handling advice, first- and third-party coverage opinions and guidance concerning Texas insurance statutes.
Experience
- Successfully represented micro-publisher in state court in copyright dispute with planned development community over name use and related fair use and defamation issues.
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Represented publisher in dispute with photographer over dispute concerning attributions for use of celebrity’s photograph.
- Defended a global insurer in a large Covid case where Plaintiffs pled business income loss exceeded $50 million, and the case was dismissed with prejudice.
- Monitoring counsel providing coverage advice for COVID-19 business interruption claims.
- Coverage counsel involving builders’ risk delay claim for construction of residential facility resulting in settlement favorable to the client.