MARGARET R. MIGLIETTA

Margaret R. Miglietta joined Cummins and White, LLP as a partner in 2005. Ms. Miglietta's practice focuses on civil litigation, insurance coverage, and appellate matters. She is fluent in Spanish and Italian, and proficient in French.

Ms. Miglietta has extensive experience representing insurance companies and their insureds in both first and third party coverage analysis, disputes, litigation and appeals. She handles all aspects of litigation including "bad faith," contract disputes, landlord tenant disputes, Business & Professions Code §17200 actions and construction defect cases.

Ms. Miglietta's experience has given her an expertise in handling matters particular to the Southwest and California. She has provided contract analysis on fire policies issued to hundreds of policyholders whose properties were destroyed or damaged in California and Arizona wildfires. She has also represented insurers in complex commercial cases stemming from California earthquakes. Ms. Miglietta has routinely provided coverage analysis on the duty to defend on wrongful termination, slander and libel, and other personal injury coverage issues in the context of Commercial General Liability, Errors & Omissions and Directors & Officers policies.

Ms. Miglietta frequently conducts seminars for insurance carriers on the issues of California Fair Claims Settlement Practices Regulations, examinations under oath, concurrent causation, foreclosures and full credit bids and various duty to defend issues including Cumis and various business tort issues.

Ms. Miglietta is a member of the State Bar of California. She is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the Orange County Bar Association.

Ms. Miglietta received her B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from Emory University (1980). She enjoyed a junior year abroad in Italy. She earned her J.D. from Loyola Law School (1984), where she focused in International Business Transactions and International Tax.

Ms. Miglietta was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She lived in New York and Florida before moving out to California. She and her family reside in Mission Viejo, California.

Ms. Miglietta can be reached directly via e-mail at mmigllietta@cwlawyers.com.