LORIE A. KRUSE has a diverse legal background as a litigator in both state and federal courts and is licensed to practice law in California and Hawaii. Since 1993, her career in litigation has focused on the defense of medical malpractice actions on behalf of hospitals, physicians, and chiropractors in wide variety of settings including catastrophic damage cases involving traumatic brain injuries and birth injury suits, as well as the defense of claims of alleged inappropriate sexual misconduct and privacy breaches. However, Ms. Kruse also has experience both in the prosecution and defense of claims in a wide variety of practice areas including personal injury, legal malpractice, product liability, breach of contract, construction defect, maritime law, administrative actions, employment law, civil rights, and elder abuse. She has performed public entity defense work for municipalities, counties, school districts, district hospitals and police departments.