Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Insurance Coverage
Licensed in Colorado since: 1999
Education: University of Oregon School of Law
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2024 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2010 Sutton | Booker, P.C.
4949 S Syracuse StSuite 500
Denver, CO 80237 Phone: 720-625-8833 Email: Sandy Eloranto Visit website
Details
Ms. Eloranto has been representing insurance companies and their insureds for almost 20 years with a current emphasis on defending bad faith suits stemming from disputes over property damage and/or personal injury. She has defended doctors and hospitals in Colorado and Washington, as well as national pharmaceutical companies and medical product manufacturers in cases filed around the country. Ms. Eloranto has also managed a number of E-Discovery projects. In 2019, Ms. Eloranto has given presentations on the bad faith set up used by aggressive public adjusters and other policy holder advocates including speaking nationally at the Gavel Annual Conference in Florida (2021) and the NAMWOLF DDLC conference in Texas (2022). Ms. Eloranto currently serves as the Region 2 VP representation on the CBA Executive Council and Board of Governors. She is a shareholder of her firm.
First Admitted: 1999, Colorado
Professional Webpage: https://www.suttonbooker.com/attorneys/sandy-m-eloranto/
- Explaining substituted service of an insured under C.R.S. § 42-7-414 (part of Colorado’s Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law)., Avoiding Pitfalls: Substituted Service of an Insured via Their Auto Insurance Carrier, Insurance, 2017
- Summarizing Chief Judge Marcia Krieger's order vacating the appraisal award in Copper Oaks Master Home Owners Association v. American Family Insurance Company, Case 1:15-CV-01828-MSK-MJW due to evidence of appraiser and umpire partiality and incompetence. , Chief Judge Marcia Krieger Shuts Down Controversial Appraisal Conduct and Provides Guidance on the Appraisal Process in Colorado, Insurance, Bad Faith, 2018
- Summary of 10th Circuit opinion in Macomber v. American Family, 2018 WL 3957013, — Fed.Appx.— (2018) confirming that when an insured retains a public adjuster ("PA") to assist with the claim, the actions of the PA are imputed to the insured for purposes of failure to cooperate and misrepresentations related to the claim. , 10th Circuit Affirms Public Adjuster's Actions Imputed to Insured Unless Illegal, Insurance, Bad Faith, 2018
- Presentation on the Bad Faith Set Up in property damage cases including how public adjusters and appraisal are used to create exposure for carriers. Gavel Annual Conference (FL), May 2021., 2021
- CDLA Annual Conference speaker on Appraisal and Property Bad Faith Strategies (sched for July 2023, Steamboat Springs). , 2023
- CBA Executive Council and Board of Governors (Region 2 VP), 2022-2024, 2022
- Presentation at the CBA Annual Tort Law Update on First Party Bad Faith (Sept 2020). , 2020
- CLM, speaker - UM/UIM and Property Damage Bad Faith Suits in Colorado, 2019
- CDLA, speaker - Defending First Party Property Bad Faith Suits , 2019
- NAMWOLF, active in Insurance PAC and Trial PAC, 2019
- Summary Judgment, Morganti v. American Family, 1:20-cv-03295-DDD-NRN , 2023
- Summary Judgment, Darrah v. American Family, 1:21-cv-03438-RM-MEH (on appeal), 2023
- Summary Judgment, Olave v. American Family, 1:21-cv-0208-CMA-MDB, 2023
- Defense verdict, Propp v. American Family, 1:17-cv-02629, 2019
- Bad Faith
- Insurance
Office location for Sandy Eloranto
4949 S Syracuse St
Suite 500
Denver, CO 80237
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2024
- Rising Stars: 2010