The 2025 LA Fires: Your Insurance and Legal Rights in the Aftermath, and What to Expect in 2026

John Torbett is a trial lawyer at Kramer Trial Lawyers whose practice focuses on general business litigation, real property litigation, insurance litigation, including bad faith, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, partnership disputes, corporate governance and control disputes, entertainment litigation and securities litigation. Mr. Torbett has represented clients in the Film and TV industry, interior design, internet commerce and publishing, finance, consumer finance, food distribution, hospitality, real estate investment and development, veterinary businesses and business brokers. Mr. Torbett also has experience in general corporate law, asset purchases and sales, as well as business entity formation and content agreements for contributors to web based publications. Mr. Torbett has tried multiple jury trials to verdict, as well as bench trials, and several FINRA arbitrations. Mr. Torbett has won two seven figure judgments for his clients and obtained favorable, six figure settlements in dozens of other cases. Mr. Torbett was lead trial counsel in an inverse condemnation case against the city of Los Angeles where he obtained a $5.6 million judgment for his client. In addition, Mr. Torbett has obtained multiple six figure settlements for his clients on inverse condemnation claims against the cities of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. Mr. Torbett obtained a six figure settlement in a copyright infringement action on behalf of a film maker. Prior to becoming of-cousnel to KTL, John Torbett graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in Economics and received his JD from the Southern Methodist Univ. School of Law in Dallas, Texas.” Mr. Torbett participated in the SMU Law School’s criminal clinic program where he represented indigent clients referred by the public defender’s office and had two jury trials in Dallas County Criminal Court. Immediately after law school, Mr. Torbett worked at Creative Artist’s Agency, and two feature film production companies.

Amanda L. Riddle is a Partner at Corey, Luzaich, de Ghetaldi & Riddle LLP. Amanda L. Riddle represents clients in various general and complex litigation matters, including business, employment, and mass torts. She also serves as the managing partner of our firm, overseeing all aspects of the business.

Ms. Riddle leads mass tort disaster cases, focusing on wildfire and explosion cases arising from corporate wrongdoing. Ms. Riddle has repeatedly been appointed by courts to serve as liaison counsel and in leadership roles in mass tort cases, including the Eaton Fire Litigation, the PG&E Bankruptcy, the 2015 Butte Fire case, and the 2010 San Bruno Explosion case. Ms. Riddle leads various aspects of these litigations and was a member of the team that negotiated a $13.5B settlement for wildfire victims as part of the PG&E bankruptcy reorganization. To date, Ms. Riddle has represented over 6,000 victims and survivors of wildfires and explosions, securing over $1.5B in compensation for them. In 2013, Ms. Riddle was selected as a finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California’s Woman Advocate of the Year Award for her exemplary work on the PG&E case.

Ms. Riddle also manages the firm’s employment law practice. In addition to overseeing employment litigation cases, her extensive litigation experience provides a basis for counseling businesses on employment matters, as there is no better attorney to help a business avoid litigation, than a seasoned litigator.

In 2008, Ms. Riddle co-founded the San Mateo County Bar Association Legal Clinic Committee, which provided on-site legal services to residents of Shelter Network and Samaritan House’s homeless shelters on the Peninsula.

Stacy Monahan Tucker has been deeply involved in the insurance industry throughout her professional career. She worked as a management consultant for national insurers and later attended the University of Chicago Law School, where she began representing insurers in legal disputes.

Stacy spent the first decade of her career at the national law firms of Jones Day, and Quinn Emanuel in San Francisco. There she represented insurance companies in high-stakes insurance litigation, often involving plaintiffs who were high level executives, professionals and business owners whose disability and life insurance claims could potentially cost the insurer millions of dollars each. Over the years, she has accumulated a wealth of experience dealing with disability insurance, life insurance, and long term care at the most complex levels.