2024 Annual Conference - Santa Fe New Mexico - 08/01/2024 to 08/03/2024
Sandy Eloranto Sutton | Booker Ms. Eloranto has successfully defended her clients in property damage bad faith cases stemming from hail, fire, and other storm damage. She and Katie Johnson obtained a defense verdict in a federal district court trial where the insureds claimed the insurance company breached the contract by refusing to pay for a full roof replacement. Ms. Eloranto also obtained dismissal of the bad faith claims in a dispute over the nature and extent of hail damage to a commercial building by proving the insured had not even provided the information it now claimed made the claim handling unreasonable to the insurance company to consider. She has presented to the Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, and Claims Litigation Management on handling property bad faith cases. In addition to bad faith, Ms. Eloranto has defended numerous cases involving catastrophic injuries, giving her the ability to quickly assess complex medical causation and damages issues and retain physicians and other medical experts to defend her clients. She has also managed a number of multi-million dollar E-Discovery collections from the preservation and collection phase through production. She has drafted legal hold policies, managed the collection and production of foreign language documents, and negotiated complicated two-tier protective orders and electronic document production specifications. Ms. Eloranto was named a Colorado Super Lawyers Rising Star® in 2010 and a Colorado Super Lawyer® in 2019-2023. During her practice, she has been active in the Faculty of Federal Advocates, Colorado Women’s Bar Association (board member, 2005-2007), Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, and the Defense Research Institute. She also served as a consultant to the Swedish Hospital Ethics Committee on Colorado’s medical directive statutes. She is licensed in Colorado and Washington (inactive). She earned her bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and her law degree from the University of Oregon where she was an Associate Editor for the Oregon Law Review. | |||||||
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