E-mail: Debra B. Branse

Debra B. Branse has over 17 years experience in insurance law and litigation. During her first eight years of practice, Ms. Branse worked at several distinguished law firms where she handled a broad variety of cases involving complex civil litigation and insurance coverage disputes for both property and liability insurance companies and corporate clients. She later gained first-hand experience of an insurance company while working as senior staff counsel at a major insurance carrier. Her years of experience at the insurance company led to her senior counsel position at another prominent law firm in the Bay Area where she primarily handled and monitored the defense of that same carrier's cases. Ms Branse also gained additional experience with first party insurance by defending property carriers in insurance coverage disputes when she worked as senior counsel for another local firm. There, Ms Branse second-chaired a contentious policy appraisal initiated by one of the firm's insurer clients to resolve a disputed fire loss. She also provided coverage advice to one of the firm's corporate clients to assist it in pursuing its additional insurers for coverage and defense in various product liability cases. Debra B. Branse completed her undergraduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. She was admitted to the California State Bar in January of 1995.