Summit Trial Attorneys leans on insurer-side experience to pursue injury claims

Renee M. Finch launched Summit Trial Attorneys in Las Vegas in 2025 after more than two decades in insurance defense, including work for insurers and major corporations. The firm is using that background to handle injury, bad faith and product liability cases across Nevada, with Finch pointing to a $41 million product-defect settlement as a career milestone.

Why it matters: - Summit Trial Attorneys is betting that deep insurance-defense experience can improve outcomes for injured clients facing insurers and corporate defendants. - The firm is focused on cases where strategy, documentation and negotiation can materially affect compensation, including wrongful death and product-defect claims. - Finch’s move from defense to plaintiff work signals a shift from protecting insurers to pursuing accountability for injured people.

What happened: - Renee M. Finch founded Summit Trial Attorneys in Las Vegas in April 2025. - Finch spent more than 20 years working with insurance companies before opening the plaintiff-focused firm. - Finch’s career included work as an attorney defending insurers and nationally known corporations. - Summit Trial Attorneys is a female-owned personal injury law firm based at UnCommons in Las Vegas. - The firm represents injured people and families throughout Nevada.

The details: - Finch says her insurance background helps her evaluate claims, anticipate defenses and prepare cases for negotiation or trial. - Summit Trial Attorneys handles motor vehicle collisions, hotel and casino injuries, defective products, negligent security, insurance bad faith and wrongful death. - The firm emphasizes direct communication and keeping clients informed about the path ahead. - Summit also says it prepares cases with the evidence needed for settlement discussions or trial. - Finch served as lead counsel in a $41 million product-defect settlement, with Nick Rowley of Trial Lawyers for Justice serving as of counsel. - Summit describes a four-year product-defect case as a turning point that helped inspire Finch to create a practice dedicated to injured people. - Finch was selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars lists from 2019 through 2024. - Finch received My Vegas Top 100 Nevada Lawyer recognition in 2020. - Finch is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Nevada Justice Association. - Finch is also a member of Outer Realm, a peer-selected national group of trial lawyers. - More information is available at the firm’s website. - Firm updates are posted on Instagram at @summittrialattorneys. - Summit Trial Attorneys offers consultations at 702-789-4200.

Between the lines: - Finch’s background gives Summit an argument that it understands how insurers think and where claim evaluations can be pressured. - The $41 million settlement provides a public proof point for the firm’s litigation experience, even though past results do not predict future outcomes. - The firm’s branding around direct communication and client education appears aimed at differentiating it in a crowded personal injury market.

What’s next: - Summit Trial Attorneys is positioned to keep expanding its Nevada plaintiff practice across auto, premises, product and bad-faith cases. - The firm will likely continue using Finch’s insurer-side experience and prior results as part of its client pitch. - Future case outcomes will depend on the facts of each matter, as the firm notes that every case is different.

The bottom line: - Summit Trial Attorneys is framing insurer-side experience as an advantage for injured clients seeking leverage against defendants and their carriers.