Zoheb Noorani is a Legal 500 Next Generation insurance lawyer whose command of the highly specialized rules, canons, and authorities specific to insurance law allows him to identify novel arguments and implement winning strategies. Insurers turn to him for guidance on some of the industry’s most challenging and sensitive insurance matters, from the unprecedented threat posed by COVID-related disruptions to the protracted stand-off over coverage for thousands of clergy abuse claims to global aviation controversies triggered by recent geopolitical conflict.
Zoh provides value at all stages of litigation, including fact development, case analysis, motion practice, appellate strategy, and settlement counseling. He is a skilled writer and communicator, adept at translating the intricacies of insurance law for the generalists who tend to populate the bench. And he has a track record of devising perceptive new arguments, often uncovering a fact, a document, or an insurance tenet that ultimately proves to be case dispositive.
- Multiple coverage cases that established favorable precedents related to COVID-19 property damage and communicable disease claims.
- Member of the team that convinced a Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to reject the consolidation of hundreds of pandemic-related coverage actions, helping the industry avoid “what could have been one of the most consequential MDLs in US litigation history,” according to news reports.
- Representing an insurer in all phases of litigation related to coverage claims for planes stranded by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Obtained summary adjudication based on a policy’s No Voluntary Payments Clause after a water district assumed millions in remediation costs with no notice to the insurer.
- Erased tens of millions of dollars in potential coverage for default judgments after unearthing evidence that a former policyholder had been suspended for failure to pay taxes and framing a creative statute of limitations argument.
- Won summary judgment based on rescission after substituting for prior counsel and establishing that the policyholder, despite having already prevailed in a phase-one coverage ruling, had made material misrepresentations on its insurance application.
Languages
- Hindi
- Kannada
Admissions
Bar Admissions
- California
Education
- University of Southern California, J.D., Order of the Coif
- University of Southern California, B.A., Film Studies
Honors & Awards
- Recommended by The Legal 500 US for Insurance: Advice to Insurers (2020-2025)
- Named to The Legal 500 US “Next Generation Lawyer” list in the Insurance: Advice to Insurers category (2018-2019)