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Biography
Laurie Barbe represents insurance companies in response to first and third party insurance claims and defends individuals and businesses in claims involving personal injury, wrongful death, products liability and property damage. She has also been involved in appellate proceedings before the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She is co-leader of the firm's Insurance Company Team.
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Work Experience
1990 Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
1988-1990 Clerk, The Honorable Robert B. Stone, Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of West Virginia
1988-1990 Clerk, The Honorable Robert B. Stone, Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of West Virginia
Speaking Engagements
Speaker, Presentation to Young Lawyers on Motion Practice (Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia Annual Meeting 2016)Speaker, “Preparing Your Client for a Deposition” (Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia Deposition Boot Camp 2015)Speaker, "Medicare and Medicaid Changes" (Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia Paralegal Seminar 2013)Speaker, "Fraud Awareness and Investigations" (PLRB Central Regional Adjusters Conference 2011)Speaker, "Unravel the Insurance Coverage Implications of Mold Claims" (NBI 2005)Speaker, "Automobile Insurance Fraud" (Erie 2010)Speaker, "Fire Investigations and Fire Analysis" (State Farm 2008)Article, “Fraud, Concealment, and Misrepresentation: What Legal Tools and Defenses are Available to Insurers?” DRI In-House Defense Quarterly (Fall 2015)Article, "Burning Down the House," Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Summer 2012)Article, "Additional Items of Interest" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Winter, 2010)Article, "Additional Items of Interest" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Summer, 2009)Article, "Additional Items of Interest" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Spring, 2009)Article, "Additional Items of Interest" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Summer, 2008)Article, "Rumor Has It" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Winter, 2007)Article, "Additional Items of Interest" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Summer, 2007)Article, "Insurance Adjuster Licensing in West Virginia" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Winter, 2006)Article, "Protecting Proprietary Business Documents During Discovery" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Summer, 2006)Article, "Insurance Cases of Interest" Steptoe & Johnson Insurance Law Update (Summer, 2004)
Key Experience
Provided assistance to insurance companies writing new business in West Virginia to assure their policies are in compliance with applicable laws and regulations
Prepared coverage opinions and defended insurers in West Virginia state and federal declaratory judgment actions involving claims arising under personal, commercial, excess, and surplus lines policies
Handled numerous investigations and defense of insurers in suspected arson and fraud claims
Memberships & Awards
Professional
2016 President’s Award, Defense Trial Counsel of West VirginiaImmediate Past President: Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia (2013-2014)Insurance Law Committee: Defense Trial Counsel of West VirginiaWest Virginia State Representative: Defense Research InstituteInsurance Law Committee, SIU/Fraud Committee, Co-Chair Personal Lines Committee, Marketing Committee for 2014 ICP Seminar, and Steering Committee for 2016 ICCI Seminar: Defense Research InstituteWest Virginia Chapter of the International Association of Arson InvestigatorsProperty Loss Research BureauWest Virginia Association of Insurance CompaniesThe Best Lawyers in America®Order of BarristersChief Justice, Moot Court Board