Katrina R. Ashley

Katrina Atkins Ashley works with clients facing trust, probate, product liability, or health insurance issues, to navigate the legal minefields and complexities of litigation and to develop a proper strategy. She represents fiduciaries, individual beneficiaries, non-profit beneficiaries, personal representatives, and interested third-parties in disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty claims, trust interpretation, will contests, accountings, satisfaction of reporting duties, and subpoena compliance. Understanding that probate and trust issues involve more than money, Katrina works with clients to find creative solutions that help avoid protracted litigation, contain costs, and preserve relationships.

Through her product liability work, Katrina has assisted numerous pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers with the management of single-plaintiff cases, multidistrict Litigation, and isolated situations involving potentially high exposure. Katrina has worked as national counsel and as local counsel to successfully resolve thousands of consumer products liability claims. Through these experiences, Katrina navigates NDAs, INDAs, and ANDAs to efficiently and effectively build a defense against pharmaceutical claims. She works diligently with clients to employ sensible and successful approaches to the defense of each suit.

Katrina’s understanding of the health insurance industry and the regulatory environment allows her to assist clients facing complex, multi-party coverage actions with pre-trial litigation and discovery, dispositive pleadings, and whenever possible, alternative dispute resolution methods. She also consults with insurance carriers to manage and minimize risk by providing coverage opinions, claims handling advice, and managing litigation and other disputed claims.