Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is pleased to announce that insurance coverage partner Koorosh “KT” Talieh has been elected to serve as president-elect of the American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC). A longstanding fellow of the ACCC, Talieh previously served as the organization’s secretary/treasurer and co-chair of its Membership Committee. He will assume the role of ACCC president in May 2026.

ACCC is the preeminent association of US, Canadian, and Bermudan lawyers who represent the interests of insurers and policyholders. Its mission is to advance the creative, ethical and efficient resolution of insurance coverage and extracontractual disputes; to enhance the civility and quality of the practice of insurance law; to provide peer-reviewed scholarship; and to improve the relationships among the members of our profession. Seven of the firm’s attorneys, including Talieh, are fellows in the ACCC.

Talieh’s practice focuses on complex insurance litigation, counseling, arbitrations, trials, and appeals. He represents corporate policyholders in disputes seeking to enforce insurance coverage for products, environmental, construction, directors and officers, employment, fiduciary, errors and omissions, and intellectual property liabilities, and a wide array of first-party property and business interruption losses. Talieh’s experience includes all phases of dispute resolution from pre-complaint investigation and advice through mediation, arbitration, trial, appeals and settlements. He has extensive experience in analyzing insurance coverage under various types of policies including general liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, bankers professional liability, employers professional liability, fiduciary liability, first-party property, builder’s risk, multimedia and other types of specialized insurance products. He also provides risk management consulting services to clients during procurement process renewal for all risks and lines of coverage.