Samantha Stewart

Samantha Stewart is a Manager in the Mass Torts Practice. Her expertise includes analyzing litigation risk and providing consulting support, conducting scenario analyses, and modeling long tail liabilities. She has extensive experience working on a variety of cases in the insurance, PFAS, personal injury, and environmental industries. Ms. Stewart’s work has focused on product liability cases, including asbestos and coal, but with a concentration in talc. She has also worked on cases involving bankruptcy and has expertise in analyzing and processing large data sets.

BA, Economics, Wellesley College

• Supported the testifying expert in In re Red River Talc, LLC related to allegations of product liability from talc exposure. Supported development of econometric models to address causation, model the potentially exposed population, and analyze the potential for current and future claimants and the value of their potential claims.
• Supported consulting expert in providing due diligence evaluation of emerging litigation risk. Built scenario model to assess possible exposure and collaborated with counsel in preparing strategic options for a cosmetics manufacturer.
• Supported the expert in evaluating the potential litigation risk stemming from alleged premature failure of a consumer health-related product. Analyzed publicly available data on patient outcomes and product sales to predict expected population of failures and potential future claims.
• In In re LTL Management LLC, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy matter, on behalf of the debtor, supported the expert in evaluating the economic benefits of resolving personal injury claims through an administrative system that results from bankruptcy reorganization rather than through litigation.
• On behalf of Johnson & Johnson in In re Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., supported the testifying expert on behalf of defendants in a multiple product liability matter. Collected and analyzed data to address causation, responded to statistical analysis provided by opposing experts, modeled the population potentially exposed to the product at issue, and analyzed the value and potential for current and future claimants.
• Supported testifying expert in rebutting all sums insurance allocation calculations on behalf of a joint defense group of insurers in Continental Casualty Co. v. BorgWarner Inc.
• Supported the expert on behalf of debtors in multidistrict litigation related to PFAS contamination to assess potential future tort expenditures and evaluate insurance assets that may provide coverage for those expenditures. 
• Supported the expert in analyzing past and future asbestos and mixed-dust liabilities on behalf of defendant. Used an allocation model to estimate disease-specific forecasts and exposure distributions.
• Assessed insurer’s estimated obligations under scenario modeling produced by policyholder’s analysts.
• Built complex allocation models involving tens of thousands of potential scenarios on behalf of a policyholder. These scenarios included different allocation methodologies, diverse per occurrence limit definitions, and other choice-of-law questions. Compiled models into dynamic litigation risk assessment tools used to weight scenarios and calculate expected recoveries or obligations.