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Pamira Shah Matteis

​Pamira is a partner at WMC who represents plaintiffs that are public entities, businesses, and individuals in a wide range of matters. Her practice areas include insurance recovery, property damage arising out of hurricanes, floods, fires, and other natural disasters, the False Claims Act, and consumer fraud claims. She strongly believes that large corporations should treat people fairly, and she will fight to get every penny owed to her clients, regardless of whether they are large public entities or individual homeowners.

Representative matters include:

• Representing businesses and homeowners whose properties were damaged by Hurricanes Irma, Harvey, and Maria.
  
  
• Representing 1,100 homeowners and businesses in FEMA’s Hurricane Sandy claims review process. After FEMA’s insurance companies were caught committing fraud and underpaying policyholders after Sandy, FEMA agreed to allow all policyholders to reopen their claims. WMC took the unprecedented approach of arbitrating over 1,100 individual claims to ensure that every one of its clients received a fair hearing and an opportunity to recover what was owed to them. WMC’s clients recovered an average of nearly four times what others received through the same review process.
  
  
• Representing the relators in U.S. ex rel. Rigsby v. State Farm, 1:06-cv-00433, which was the first case in history in which a jury found that one of FEMA’s insurance companies intentionally defrauded the federal government. The case was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and was affirmed 8-0 in favor of the whistleblowing Rigsby sisters.
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• Representing the Attorney General of Mississippi in a series of lawsuits brought against insurance companies for committing systematic fraud and other illegal acts in the claims handling process after Hurricane Katrina that resulted in Mississippi’s payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to homeowners that should have been paid by the insurance companies.

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Education

• J.D., The George Washington University School of Law (1993)
  
  
• B.A., Yale University (1990)

Bar Memberships

• Maryland
  
  
• Pennsylvania
  
  
• District of Columbia
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