A 1989 Cornell University graduate, Ms Gilbert studied employment law and labor relations at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Ms Gilbert worked in-house for a variety of insurance companies including, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Mutual Of New York. Upon graduation from Fordham University School of Law, Ms Gilbert worked with Mound, Cotton & Wollan where she gained diverse and extensive litigation experience in Federal and State Courts in insurance coverage defense and subrogation litigation of large losses involving engineering and architectural failures.

In November 2009, Ms Gilbert and her litigation team obtained a noteworthy successful verdict against the United States Army Corps of Engineers for damages sustained in the area east of the Industrial Canal in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Overcoming governmental immunity defenses by virtue of a novel application of Federal Environmental laws, Ms Gilbert and her team proved that the Corps’ negligent maintenance and operation of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet led to the failure of the adjacent levee system rendering the Government liable for the damages sustained by insured local property owners and utility infrastructures.

The Department of Justice has appealed this decision to the Fifth Circuit and Ms Gilbert is currently litigating a companion case relating to the Corps’ negligence for actions in the Industrial Canal and the damages sustained by insured property owners in the Lower Ninth Ward.

Other complex engineering failures that Ms Gilbert has overseen include the cause and origin analysis and litigation of multi-million dollar structural failures of: the North Coast Super Aqueduct in Puerto Rico; the liability of an interstate gas transmission distributor for a natural gas explosion at an insured Ethanol facility in the Midwest; a massive failure of reciprocating oxygen compressors of the government owned steel mill of Chile, South America; as well as, less catastrophic structural failures caused by extreme weather conditions, faulty workmanship and design.

Ms Gilbert has and continues to represent such diverse clients as Chartis Insurance Company; American International Underwriters domestically, in South America, and the Caribbean; Cornhuskers Energy Lexington, Nebraska; Duncanson & Holt; George A. Fuller Construction Company; Joshua Hendy Iron Works; Northrop Grumman Systems Corp.; Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock; Arthur J. Gallagher and Company; Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company; The Hartford Insurance Company; The Traveler's Insurance Company; and New England Reinsurance Company.

Ms Gilbert is admitted to the NYS Bar, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms Gilbert also holds her license Independent General Adjuster in the State of New York.