Kim Karelis

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Ropers Majeski
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Retained by a large insurer defending a sheet metal manufacturer to provide expert opinions regarding the reasonableness of attorneys' fees
  costs billed by multiple law firms. At issue is a cross-complaint filed by the plaintiff alleging its subcontractors entered into a written subcontract agreement which includes express indemnity provisions. The plaintiff seeks reimbursement for such fees
  costs pursuant to an assignment of rights.
  Defended an insurance carrier whose insured lost most of his furniture
  belongings after a fire broke out in an apartment he rented. The lease provided that the l
  lord would purchase fire insurance for the building only. The l
  lord's carrier paid for the damage
  then pursued a subrogation claim against the insured renter.
  Defended an insurance carrier in an alleged bad faith claim arising from its decision to not defend its insured in an underlying action. However, the policy clearly provided that there was no coverage for the claims asserted by the claimant against the insured.
  Pursued an administrative law request for due process after a school district refused to provide a special needs student with a one-on-one behavioral aide. The mother of the student worried that his uncontrolled behavior, in which he threw things across the classroom, might result in serious injury to another student or teacher. Based on our filing, the school district agreed to agree to provide this much-needed assistance at no charge to the parents.
  To save money, a school district unilaterally decided that a student should be withdrawn from a private special needs preschool
  enrolled in public school against the wishes of his parents. We convinced the school district to let the student remain at the private special needs preschool for the current school year at no cost to the parents.
  A school district repeatedly attempted to transfer a student with muscular dystrophy from a Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) classroom to an Autism Core classroom. However, his illness makes his bones brittle
  highly susceptible to injury. This concerned his parents because some of the students in the Autism Core classroom often behaved aggressively, posing a clear
  present danger to the MD student in his fragile physical condition. We persuaded the school district to allow the student to stay in an SLD class room.