Andrea DeField is a partner in Hunton Andrews Kurth’s top-ranked insurance coverage practice where she leads the firm’s cyber insurance practice. She has dedicated her career to helping clients manage risk and maximize insurance recovery. With an undergraduate degree focused on crisis communications, Andrea understands the pressures and needs of C-suite executives navigating through cybersecurity events, natural disasters, regulatory investigations, and bet-the-company litigation. She has led clients through insurance claims for some of the most widely publicized international cyber incidents of 2020 through 2024, as well as major D&O, crime/fidelity, E&O, property, builder’s risk, and general liability claims.
As part of her counseling practice, Andrea adds value to business deals by advising clients on contractual risk transfer through indemnity, additional insured, and required insurance provisions in contracts. She also conducts insurance due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
Andrea helps clients proactively manage risks by auditing clients’ cyber and other insurance programs to identify gaps in coverage before renewal and works with clients, their brokers, and insurers to fill gaps through manuscript endorsements.
When a loss has occurred or a claim has been made, Andrea helps policyholder clients maximize insurance recovery through litigation or arbitration of coverage and bad faith cases.
Updated Aug 2024
