Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Jessica F. Pardi is a partner in the Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. Ms. Pardi practices in the areas of insurance litigation, reinsurance dispute resolution, complex coverage disputes, bad faith matters, managing general agency disputes and insurer insolvency. Ms. Pardi’s insurer insolvency practice includes representation of receivers, reinsurers and acquiring insurers. Since graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, Ms. Pardi has practiced litigation in Atlanta and has represented insurers and reinsurers in complex arbitrations around the county, lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout the United States and in regulatory affairs in Georgia and other states. Ms. Pardi is the editor of the firm’s Insurance/Reinsurance/Healthcare Review and frequently speaks on insurance and reinsurance topics.

Recent Experience

• Representing managing general agencies and claim administrators in multiple cases with insurance companies involving allegations of misconduct and negligence.
• Representing reinsurers and insurers in program disputes.
• Representing workers’ compensation insurers in premium audit disputes before Departments of Insurance, in State Administrative Hearings and in court.
• Representing numerous insurers in claims seeking to pierce policy limits on the grounds that the insurer refused to settle in bad faith.
• Representing electric utility in property and lost income claim arising from generator explosions. Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. New Hampshire Ins. Co., Case No. 06-3261-CV-5-DW (U.S.D.C., W.D. Mo.). Case settled on confidential terms.
• Representing reinsurer in rescission claim involving facultative environmental certificates. Gulf Ins. Co. v. United Nat’l Ins. Co., Case No. 2003 CV 72574 (Fulton Sup. Ct., Ga.). Case settled on confidential terms.
• Representing brokers and agents in cases involving allegations of negligence, breach of contract, fraud bread of fiduciary duty.

Honors and Affiliations

Member, ARIAS.US
Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS)
Lamar Inn of Court, Emory University

Speaking Engagements

• 2011 Insurance Forum June 29th, 2011 - 8:15 AM

Articles

• Discovery of Correspondence Between Counsel and Expert Witnesses
• The Insurance Industry Takes Another Swing at Efficient Dispute Resolution

Newsletters

• Insurance Reinsurance Review - Spring 2012
• Remember when RICO was about the Mafia?
• Becoming an Additional Insured Now May Be Easier
• Winter 2009: Insurance Reinsurance Managed Healthcare Review
• Courts Consistently Rule in Favor of Disclosure by Arbitrators

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