Katherine L. Koener
Partner
Katherine Koener is a Partner and Business Unit Leader focusing her practice on first-party property insurance defense, including coverage and bad faith litigation. Katherine also handles the defense of a wide array of third-party insurance defense claims.
Katherine defends property insurers throughout Florida in first-party coverage matters, where many of the claims involve sinkholes, windstorms, fire, molds, theft, and water losses. She also has experience in handling complex civil and commercial matters, including the defense of personal injury, premises liability, construction defect cases, and admiralty law.
Katherine earned her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Florida. She then went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law.
- Stetson University College of Law, J.D., 2008
- University of Florida, B.A., 2005
- Florida
- United States District Court, Northern District of Florida
- United States District Court, Middle District of Florida
- United States District Court, Southern District of Florida
- Quoted, “Some Hope New Florida Appeals Court Will Be Friendlier to Insurers“, Claims Journal, January 2022
- Quoted, “Could New Florida Appeals Court Help on Insurance Litigation?“, Insurance Journal, January 2022
- Quoted, “Industry Responds to Florida’s Sweeping Property Insurance Reform Attempt“, Insurance Coverage Law Center, June 2021
- Featured, “Class of 1998″, Stetson Law- Class Notes (page 29), Winter 2020
- Featured, “Kelley Kronenberg Adds Two Partners to its Tampa Office”, Tampa Bay Newswire, April 18, 2019
- Featured, “Kelley Kronenberg Adds Two Partners to its Tampa Office”, Attorney at Law Magazine, April 18, 2019
- Speaker: “Workers’ Compensation Landmines: How to be Prepared and Mitigate Exposure,” July 2023
- Speaker: “First-Party Property Seminar“, April 2023
- Speaker: “New Legislative Changes For First-Party Property,” March 2023
- Speaker, “Bad Faith Pitfalls and Handling EUP/SIU Pre-Suit Investigation,” February 2022
- Speaker, “Changes in 1.510 Summary Judgment Standard,” May 2021
- Association of Professional Insurance Women, Member