People
Sarah F. Voutyras
Partner
- New York
- Los Angeles
Biography
Sarah Voutyras serves as coverage, monitoring, and litigation counsel on all lines of business liability insurance, including D&O, E&O, Cyber, and PL insurance. Sarah has broad experience litigating emerging legal issues in the cyber, technology and management liability space. Sarah also counsels insurers with respect to the risk presented by, coverage for, and resolution of, high-exposure litigations and regulatory enforcement actions involving cybersecurity, data privacy/breaches, fintech, insurtech and other emerging technologies, along with privacy litigation, consumer class actions, shareholder litigations, and related insurance coverages.
Honors
- The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, Insurance Law, 2023 - 2024
- New York Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, 2016 - 2023
- New York Metro Women's Rising Stars, 2023
Professional Associations
- Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), Member
Experience
Litigation Successes
- 2022 – Obtained an arbitration award in favor of the insurer on the issue of “medical professional services” following evidentiary hearing with respect to a $10 million claim under a primary Technology Errors & Omissions insurance policy.
- 2022 – Together with co-counsel, obtained an arbitration award in favor of the insurers on allocation following evidentiary hearing with respect to a $100 million claim under an Insurance Company Errors & Omissions insurance program.
- 2022 – Together with co-counsel, obtained an arbitration award in favor of the insurers on the issue of “professional services” following evidentiary hearing with respect to a $90 million claim under a Bankers Professional Liability insurance program.
Results
Second Circuit Affirms With Prejudice Dismissal of Antitrust Suit Against SB’s Client
11/19/2015Skarzynski Black successfully defeated an antitrust suit asserted against its client, a travel agency. The plaintiff in the suit, also a travel agency, alleged that Skarzynski Black’s client interfered with the plaintiff’s relationship as a franchisee of American Express Travel and entered an improper agreement to control the market for discounted first and business class airline tickets.
publications & presentations
- Can Exclusive Derivative Forum Selection Provisions Survive Ninth Circuit’s En Banc Review?, D&O Diary, January, 2023, Co-Author.
- The Sharing Economy: A New Frontier in Management Liability?, IMRI, July 2016, Co-Author.
- The SEC's Use of In-house Courts: What it Means for Private Equity Firms, plus J., August 2015, Co-Author.
- Awake at Night: Cyberbreaches and the New Risk to Directors and Officers, IMRI, October 2014, Co-Author.
Publications
Guest Post: Can Exclusive Derivative Forum Selection Provisions Survive Ninth Circuit’s En Banc Review?
01/13/2023We are pleased to announce a guest post for "The D&O Diary", co-authored by our very own, Sarah Voutyras Rachmel (Partner, Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP) and Melanie Saponara (Claims Manager - Executive Risk, Beazley).
The SEC's Use of In-house Courts: What it Means for Private Equity Firms
08/01/2015Sarah Voutyras co-authored an article with Rachel Simon from Swiss Re Corporate Solutions about the impact of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and resultant initiative launched by the SEC in October 2012.
News
Seventeen Lawyers Named 2023 New York-Metro: Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
09/22/2023We are excited to announce that Super Lawyers has named 17 of our lawyers to its 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Thirteen lawyers were recognized as 2023 New York Metro Super Lawyers and four lawyers were recognized 2023 New York Metro Rising Stars.
Skarzynski Marick Lawyers Recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2024
08/17/2023Skarzynski Marick & Black LLP is pleased to announce that Bill Accordino, Sarah Allison, Marie Figueiredo, Marissa Gerny, Andrew Gerow, Doug Giombarrese, Tae Young Lee, Mircea Lupu, John Lynn, Neel Rana, Michael Thompson and Sarah Voutyras were recognized in the 2024 Edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Insurance Law.
Firm Events
IADC Professional Liability Roundtable
04/26/2023Sarah Voutyras Rachmel will be moderating an upcoming panel on “The FTX Meltdown: Insurance Issues Arising from The FTX Collapse” for the IADC Professional Liability Roundtable on Thursday, May 18th at Cornell University, ILR School.