Sherilyn Pastor is the Practice Leader of McCarter & English's Insurance Coverage Group. She has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in insurance assets for a broad range of policyholder clients. She also provides advice to clients assessing their potential risks, analyzing new insurance products and considering the adequacy of their existing insurance programs.

Ms. Pastor, for example, recently obtained summary judgment from New Jersey's Appellate Division, awarding Wakefern Food Corporation insurance coverage for all its 2003 Northeast blackout losses. In so doing, the court rejected Wakefern's insurer's narrow interpretation of the phrase "physical damage," and its too expansive reading of policy exclusions. Ms. Pastor also recently obtained summary judgment from a Kentucky trial court that Exel Inc.'s insurer improperly tried to exhaust its insurance policy's indemnity limits, thereby ending its supplemental defense obligations, by making in appropriate indemnity payments to an uncovered entity. She is now pursuing Exel's bad faith claims against the insurer. Ms. Pastor also is Transamerica Corporation's lead trial counsel in a multi-million dollar dispute with a former subsidiary regarding insurance that Transamerica purchased as part of a consolidated risk management structure for itself and its subsidiaries. She also assisted Lucent Technologies Inc. (now Alcatel Lucent) recover its fiduciary liability coverage following its settlement of various ERISA-based class actions.

Ms. Pastor publishes and lectures frequently on a variety of topics including insurance coverage, trial advocacy, pretrial practice and professional responsibility. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin, and teaches the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's trial skills and deposition skills programs.

Ms. Pastor is a Regional Representative to the ABA's Insurance Coverage Committee, and Co-Chair of the ABA's General Liability Subcommittee. She also is a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Professional Responsibility Rules Committee.

Ms. Pastor is recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyer for 2006-2010 editions.

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