Blank Rome Insurance Recovery partners Mary Craig Calkins, Linda Kornfeld, co-chair of the group, and David A. Thomas have been named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Leaders of Influence: Insurance 2026 list.

This recognition honors insurance professionals who have made a significant impact on both the profession and the Los Angeles community. Profiles of the honorees appeared in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Leaders of Influence: Insurance special supplement, which highlights their careers and professional achievements.

To view the supplement, please click here.

Mary's, Linda's, and Dave's honoree profiles, as published by the Los Angeles Business Journal, are copied in full below.

Mary Craig Calkins
Partner
Blank Rome LLP

Mary Craig Calkins is one of the nation’s most trusted and accomplished policyholder advocates, with more than 35 years of precedent-shaping insurance recovery experience across directors and officers liability, errors and omissions, media and entertainment, intellectual property, cyber/ privacy, e-commerce/technology, first party property, and business interruption claims. She is the advisor of choice for companies, boards, and producers. Calkins leads cutting edge, nationally watched matters. What sets her apart is the combination of elite judgment, boardroom credibility, and courtroom effectiveness – paired with a relentless results orientation. She has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for clients and repeatedly delivered creative, business forward resolutions in matters that make headlines and move the market.

Linda Kornfeld
Partner; Co-Chair, Insurance Recovery Practice Group 
Blank Rome LLP 

Linda Kornfeld stands among the nation’s preeminent insurance recovery lawyers, distinguished by decades of precedent setting advocacy, exceptional leadership, and an unwavering commitment to protecting corporate policyholders in their most consequential disputes. As partner and co-chair of Blank Rome’s nationally recognized Insurance Recovery Practice, she has built an extraordinary career defined by high-stakes wins, innovative legal strategies, and a reputation as one of the most respected advisors and litigators in a highly competitive, historically male-dominated field. Across 35 years, Kornfeld has represented major corporations, universities, and public and private entities in some of the most complex insurance recovery matters in the country.

David A. Thomas
Partner
Blank Rome LLP  

Dave Thomas is a nationally respected insurance recovery and complex commercial litigation attorney whose work spans some of the most high-value, high-risk coverage disputes in the country. With deep experience across cybersecurity and privacy, commercial general liability, D&O, EPLI, first-party property, financial institution bonds, and business interruption insurance, Thomas is a trusted advocate for corporate policyholders, institutions, and individual property owners confronting their most consequential coverage challenges. Thomas’ practice is distinguished by his ability to navigate deeply complex disputes at scale. His strength lies in his rare combination of legal vision, technical mastery, and courtroom acumen. Chambers USA praises him as “outstanding in his field.”