Katrina Atkins Ashley works with clients facing trust, probate, product liability, or health insurance issues, to navigate the legal minefields and complexities of litigation and to develop a proper strategy. She represents fiduciaries, individual beneficiaries, non-profit beneficiaries, personal representatives, and interested third-parties in disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty claims, trust interpretation, will contests, accountings, satisfaction of reporting duties, and subpoena compliance. Understanding that probate and trust issues involve more than money, Katrina works with clients to find creative solutions that help avoid protracted litigation, contain costs, and preserve relationships.
Through her product liability work, Katrina has assisted numerous pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers with the management of single-plaintiff cases, multidistrict Litigation, and isolated situations involving potentially high exposure. Katrina has worked as national counsel and as local counsel to successfully resolve thousands of consumer products liability claims. Through these experiences, Katrina navigates NDAs, INDAs, and ANDAs to efficiently and effectively build a defense against pharmaceutical claims. She works diligently with clients to employ sensible and successful approaches to the defense of each suit.
Katrina's understanding of the health insurance industry and the regulatory environment allows her to assist clients facing complex, multi-party coverage actions with pre-trial litigation and discovery, dispositive pleadings, and whenever possible, alternative dispute resolution methods. She also consults with insurance carriers to manage and minimize risk by providing coverage opinions, claims handling advice, and managing litigation and other disputed claims.
Memberships & Affiliations
· Cincinnati Bar Association
· Defense Research Institute
Distinctions
· Selected as a Cincy Leading Lawyer by Cincy Magazine
· 2009 YWCA Rising Star
Experience
Fixodent Denture Cream Litigation
The Procter & Gamble Distributing LLC
Dinsmore's Products Liability Team recently received a ruling in favor of The Procter & Gamble Defendants ("P&G") which is the first in the country to assess and reject the scientific basis for lawsuits filed by a number of Fixodent® users.
Long v. Time Insurance Company
Time Insurance Company
Represented Time Insurance Company in a civil action for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty as a result of a health insurance contract rescission.
Mendez Montes de Oca v. Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
National counsel for Aventis for cases involving the synthetic insulin medication, Lantus
Non-Profit Foundation
Non-Profit University
Lead trial counsel for non-profit university fundraising entity with more than $100 million in yearly gifting.
Top Ten Performing Arts College
Performing Arts College
Lead trial counsel for a top ten performing arts college.
Fortune 500 Institutional Trustee
Fortune 500 Bank
Represented Fortune 500 institutional trustee in civil action alleging breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and conspiracy claims.
Bailey v. Smart Papers, LLC
Simons-Eastern Engineering
Represented Simons-Eastern Engineering in a civil action for wrongful death and negligence claims
In re: Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) Products Liability Litigation
Procter & Gamble Distributing Company and Procter & Gamble Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
National counsel for several P&G entities for nearly a thousand claims in various jurisdictions around the country, including Seattle, Washington (MDL), California, and Florida
Fortune 500 Institutional Trustee
Fortune 500 Bank
Represented Fortune 500 institutional trustee in civil action alleging breach of fiduciary duty, conversion and conspiracy claims.
Publications
August 23, 2011, Avoiding or Defeating Will Contest Actions
June 24, 2008, The Constitutionality of Ohio's Statute of Repose for Claims Involving Improvements to Real Property
July 1, 2003, HIV and the Direct Threat Defense, 91 Ky.L.J. 859 (2003)
January 1, 2002, "Interrogatory Practice," Drug Product Liability, Matthew Bender, Chapter 23
January 1, 2002, Defining the Duty of Gun Manufacturers in Hamilton v. Berretta, 29 N. Ky. L. Rev. 849 (2002)
January 1, 2002, Drug Litigation Experience, Drug Product Liability, Matthew Bender Ch. 15 § 15.90