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Top Women Lawyers

May 12, 2011

Nancy Sher Cohen

Proskauer Rose LLP Location: Los Angeles Practice type: Litigation Practice specialty: Insurance coverage, mass tort, toxic torts, class actions, product liability



Back in the late 1980s, Cohen noticed that more companies on the hook for environmental clean-ups were having trouble getting their insurance companies to pay their fair share.


"Companies were starting to look at insurance policies, and saying, 'I need to pay for [cleaning up] half of the state of Montana - who's going to help me pay?'" Cohen said.


Cohen cut her teeth on environmental insurance coverage cases, and since then,...

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