Sarah is a member of the Casualty Department, focusing exclusively on insurance defense litigation. Her clients include insurance carriers, political subdivisions, self insureds and national retail chains. She regularly handles matters involving premises liability, trucking and motor vehicle liability, municipal liability, insurance bad faith and dram shop claims. Sarah also has experience handling UM/UIM claims, natural gas drilling claims, and product liability.
As part of her practice, Sarah has successfully litigated claims against local agencies arising out of alleged dangerous conditions of publicly owned properties and successfully defended clients in motor vehicle liability claims. She has represented entities in negligence claims involving Pennsylvania's Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act, represented clients in claims involving motor vehicle liability, premises liability and bad faith and has assisted in handling various high-exposure trucking matters, products liability and other personal injury/property matters.
Sarah graduated summa cum laude from King's College in 2005 with a Bachelor's degree in Accounting. She received her juris doctor in 2009 from The Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law.
Sarah is admitted to practice in both the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and United States District Court of New Jersey. She is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Lackawanna County Bar Association and Luzerne County Bar Association.
Honors & awards
The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation - Insurance
2024-2026
Year joined
2012
Thought Leadership
98 Marshall Dennehey Attorneys Recognized in the 2026 Editions of The Best Lawyers in America and the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America
August 20, 2025
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Who May Be Liable Under the Dram Shop Act?
Scranton
Hospitality & Liquor Liability
December 1, 2023
Key Points: Defense Digest, Vol. 29, No.
Classes/Seminars Taught
Boardable and Recoverable Economic Damages, CLE seminar, 2018
Punitive Damages in Trucking Litigation, CLE seminar, 2015
The Social Media Age and Your Auto Claim, Client Seminar, 2014