Barbara Croutch is senior counsel in the Environmental and Litigation practice groups at Greenspoon Marder LLP. She focuses her practice in the areas of class actions, commercial litigation, complex product liability and toxic torts litigation, insurance recovery disputes, environmental contamination litigation, and personal injury and wrongful death defense.

She has worked closely with major manufacturers and consumer-facing businesses to resolve claims alleging injuries due to various products, asbestos, silica, aluminum oxide, emissions, rat bite fever, bird fever, and other zoonotic diseases. She has also represented policyholders in pursuing both first- and third-party insurance bad-faith claims and has successfully recovered millions of dollars on their behalf. She represents businesses in defense of environmental contamination claims arising from Superfund sites in California.

Further, Ms. Croutch has represented clients in numerous other product liability and commercial actions, including automobile, antitrust, breach of contract, environmental contamination claims, and real estate disputes through jury and non-jury trials, domestic and international arbitrations, and mediations.

Ms. Croutch was a former Staff Registered Nurse (R.N.) in critical care who specialized in intensive care, coronary care, cardiovascular surgery, and trauma.

Bar Admissions

• California
• Texas

Education

• J.D., Loyola Law School, 1990
• B.S., Mount St. Mary’s College, Nursing, 1983