Pete Thompson
Pete Thompson is a deeply experienced counselor and litigator whose practice is focused on complex insurance coverage issues involving businesses and professionals.
His experience covers a wide range of policy types, including directors and officers liability, professional liability, general liability, umbrella and excess coverages, builder’s risk, first-party property, and others. He is often retained to analyze and prepare coverage opinions concerning complex, high-stakes claim situations that frequently involve complicated fact patterns and/or the interplay of multiple policies and policy types. As a litigator, he has successfully handled federal and state court insurance cases, in both trial and appellate courts, in upwards of thirty-five states, and is experienced in arbitration as well as conventional litigation. These cases have involved both contractual disputes over insurer coverage obligations as well as extracontractual or “bad faith” cases involving disputes between insureds and insurers – or sometimes between insurers – concerning settlement decisions and claim handling. In recent years he has accepted appointments as an arbitrator in complex insurance coverage matters, and has been selected as a party-appointed arbitrator by both insurers and insureds.
Prior to forming Thompson Gassler’s predecessor firm, Sperduto Thompson & Gassler, in 2013, Pete was a founding partner of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Thompson, Loss & Judge. Before that, he practiced for eighteen years, seven of them as Managing Partner, with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Ross, Dixon & Masback (later known as Ross, Dixon & Bell). He began his legal career in his native Cincinnati, Ohio, with the law firm of Paxton & Seasongood.
Pete has been listed by Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers every year since the honor’s inception in 2007.
Outside of his legal pursuits, he enjoys rowing and other sports, music, travel, and spending time with family and friends at his family’s summer cottage in Northern Michigan. He is married to Rebecca Terry, a physician.