Kathryn A. Underhill

Kathy Underhill is a Senior Counsel at White and Williams and a member of the Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Practice. For 39 years, Kathy has provided highly efficient and effective litigation, ADR/mediation, and counseling services to insurance carriers and risk retention groups in relation to major claims involving their policyholders. Her representations have involved a wide variety of insurance policies, underlying matters, and applicable law, and have included cases at the trial and appellate levels of many federal and state courts.

Prior to joining the firm, Kathy was a Senior Counsel at an international AmLaw Top 100 firm, and before that, she was a partner at another national law firm. She has been AV⁺ rated by Martindale-Hubbell for 28 years.

• Successfully briefed and argued the excess late notice issue in the frequently cited Olin case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and successfully briefed the pollution exclusion issue before that Court
• Successfully briefed and argued the notice and pollution exclusion issues before the U.S. District Court for Southern District of New York, and argued the expected/ intended issue before that Court
• Successfully briefed the pollution exclusion and “as damages” issues before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the pollution exclusion issue before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit
• Successfully briefed and argued against a bad faith claim in state court, and successfully briefed the pollution exclusion and “as damages” issues before that Court
• Successfully tried to a jury the “number of occurrences” and “caused by accident” issues