Beth M. Kramer is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Torts Group. She has litigated putative class and mass actions in courts across the country, and she is actively defending mass actions in a range of industry sectors including chemical, rail, and defense technology. For the past several years she has been defending neighborhood tort claims arising from TCE- and PCE-contaminated ground water at the site of a former beryllium machining plant in Florida as well as personal injury and medical monitoring claims arising from alleged exposure to airborne beryllium from the same site. Other environmental and toxic tort matters she has recently defended include personal injury and property damage claims filed by neighbors of a former creosote wood-treating facility in Florida, medical monitoring claims brought by persons alleging dioxin exposures from a train derailment fire in Ohio, and a medical monitoring case brought under the Clean Air Act.
Beth also has extensive experience litigating cases involving health insurance and managed care programs. Her litigation and trial practice also involves complex matters ranging from insurance and commercial contract disputes to government investigations and civil fraud actions, and trial of a complex environmental administrative proceeding in Florida.
Beth has served as a Vice-chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee since 2006 and is a Vice-chair of the TIPS Ethics and Professionalism Committee. She also was selected to be a member of the TIPS Leadership Academy class of 2009.
Publications
· "Recent Developments In Toxic Torts and Environmental Law," Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2011). Co-Authors: Beth M. Kramer, Scott L. Winkelman, Gloria Martinez Trattles, Jennifer E. Schlosser, April N. Ross, Joel D. Smith, Brandon G. Waggoner, and Brian J. Weber.
· "Recent Developments In Toxic Torts and Environmental Law," Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2010). Co-Authors: Beth M. Kramer, Gloria Martinez Trattles, Jessica A. Hall, Brandon G. Waggoner, Brian J. Weber, Alison L. Share, Adam Cullman, and Scott L. Winkelman.
Alerts & Newsletters
· "Quality of Service Deficiency Rejected as Basis for False Claim," Health Law 'In The News' (January 12, 2002). Contact: Beth M. Kramer.
Speaking Engagements
· "Hot Topics in Environmental Law," ABA 2011 Annual Meeting, Toronto (August 5, 2011). Moderator: Beth M. Kramer; Co-Speaker: Susan Mathiascheck.
· "Baby Steps or Seismic Shifts? Recent Developments in Toxic Tort Law," American Bar Association (ABA) Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section's Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee (June 9, 2011). Moderator and Speaker: Beth Kramer, Speakers: Jennifer Schlosser, Gloria Martinez Trattles and Scott Winkelman.
· "Environmental Exposures," Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee Annual CLE Conference (April 1, 2011). Moderator: Beth M. Kramer.
· "Class Action Medical Monitoring," Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee Annual CLE Conference (March 30, 2007). Moderator: Beth M. Kramer.
· "Environmental Tort Liabilities of Government Contractors," Ounce of Prevention Seminar XXII, Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2006). Presenters: Clifford J. Zatz and Beth M. Kramer.
· "The Sudden Toxic Tort Disaster-A Survival Kit," Toxic Torts & Environmental Law Committee Annual CLE Conference (April 8, 2006). Presenter: Beth M. Kramer.