Lee Murray Hall

Lee Hall is originally from Owensboro, Kentucky.  She graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1990.  While at UK, Lee won the 1988 Oral Advocacy Award and served as Associate Editor of the Kentucky Law Journal, where she wrote and published on the economic loss doctrine as it applied to mass litigation.  Upon graduation, Lee joined the Louisville, Kentucky based firm Brown Todd and Heyburn where she practiced in the litigation section before joining Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC as an associate in 1993. She was selected for Membership effective January 1, 1998.                                             

Lee focuses her practice on insurance coverage, insurance defense, and bad faith defense.  Her insurance defense practice includes municipal liability claims, motor vehicle and trucking claims, premises claims, construction accidents, deliberate intent and medical malpractice claims.

Within her insurance coverage practice, Lee routinely provides coverage opinions and files declaratory actions on cutting edge legal issues such as trigger and allocation; the number of "occurrences"; damages calculations; batch issues as well as the more common issues presented in ISO and manuscript forms for casualty and property loss policies.  Her representation of carriers often begins in the claims handling process, well before the filing of a coverage lawsuit, and extends through trial, settlement and appeal. She also routinely provides preventative counseling and negotiation to avoid litigation.                                  

She has lectured to professional groups on statutory and regulatory insurance issues, insurance climate and tort reform.  She has also written articles on changes in statutory and regulatory insurance law, bad faith, contract interpretation and updates from the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.   She has given presentations for NBI and Lorman on Litigating Insurance Coverage Disputes in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Lee was recently selected to serve as arbiter for coverage disputes on professional liability policies and has since arbitrated claims in Kentucky and West Virginia.

Lee served as President of the West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel from 2010-2011, which is the West Virginia DRI affiliate organization.  She also founded and served as the initial chair of the Insurance Committee for the West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel, where she published regular legal updates on West Virginia tort and insurance law for clients and insurance professionals and monitored legislative and regulatory changes. 

Lee currently serves as Vice Chair of the West Virginia Board of Law Examiners.  She has also served as the President of the Cabell County Bar Association.