Kara Altenbaumer-Price

Biography

Kara is a producer in McGriff's Executive Risk Advisors Group. She uses her 20 years of experience as corporate defense counsel and in executive risk insurance to counsel clients on executive and corporate risk and brokers large management liability programs. Kara specializes in Director & Officer, Errors & Omissions, Cyber &Privacy Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Employed Lawyers Liability, and Reps & Warranties insurance for public companies, as well as private equity and large privately held companies.
 
She is a licensed attorney and frequent speaker and writer on topics related to Director & Officer insurance, including how trends insecurities litigation, SEC and DOJ enforcement, Foreign Corrupt Practices, M&A litigation, corporate transactions, and other matters impact a company and its executives' risk and how that risk intersects with D&O and other professional liability insurance. In addition to her law license, she holds an insurance license and a Certified Claims Professional (CCP) designation in Professional Lines.
 
Prior to joining McGriff in 2019, Kara led the Executive &Professional Risk Solutions practice group for USI Southwest, where she worked as a client advisor and broker for almost a decade. Before that, Kara practiced in the commercial litigation group of Hughes & Luce (now known as K&L Gates) and the Corporate Compliance, Investigations & Defense group aHunton Andrews Kurth. Her legal practice focused on arrange of regulatory and financial issues including securities fraud; securities registration violations; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; revenue recognition and other accounting and financial reporting issues; insider trading, commercial bribery; investment adviser regulations; Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Stark law violations; white collar criminal defense; and audit and special litigation committee representation. She began her legal career as a law clerk for the Texas Supreme Court. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Texas Tech School of Law.

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: TX
• Licensed Adjuster: TX