Division of Insurance Defense Litigation

Provides legal defense for cases involving Montgomery County and fourteen local government Self-Insurance Fund participants (including such entities as the Montgomery County Board of Education, City of Rockville, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Montgomery College and the Housing Opportunities Commission) and all of their employees. The attorneys appear regularly before state and federal courts in Maryland and the District of Columbia for trials and oral arguments and before the Workers' Compensation Commission. These cases involve litigation in the following areas:

• Common law torts
• Police civil rights claims
• Other federal and state civil rights – constitutional torts
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• Workers' compensation
• Employment discrimination

List of Staff Attorney -

• Patricia P. Via, Division Chief
• John T. Beamer, II, Associate County Attorney
• Christine M. Collins, Associate County Attorney
• Charles L. Frederick, Associate County Attorney
• Patricia Lisehora Kane, Associate County Attorney
• Wendy B. Karpel, Associate County Attorney
• Paul F. Leonard, Jr., Associate County Attorney
• Heather A. Mulloy, Associate County Attorney
• Jerome Allen Nicholas, Jr., Associate County Attorney