Heather Bohnke’s practice focuses on health care and general litigation with an emphasis on insurance defense and coverage, medical malpractice, personal injury, and wrongful death. She also has experience with vulnerable adult abuse claims asserted against health care facilities and providers. She brings more than 16 years of medical malpractice litigation experience prior to joining Gust Rosenfeld.

Previously, Ms. Bohnke was in-house counsel for a major insurance company, representing the company in first-party insurance contract cases and the company’s insureds in various property and casualty cases.

EDUCATION
University of Arizona (B.S. 1997)
University of Houston Law Center (J.D. 2001)

ADMISSIONS
Arizona (2001)
Pennsylvania (2010)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
State Bar of Arizona
Pima County Bar Association
   Strategic Planning Committee (2017-Present)
   Co-Chair Court Rules Committee (2017-Present)
   Ad Hoc Civil Rules Committee (2016)
Defense Research Institute
   SLDO Leadership Conference (2015)
   Insurance Law Committee (2015-Present)
   Personal Lines Subcommittee (2016-Present)
Tucson Defense Bar
   Board Member (2013-2016)
Arizona Health Lawyers Association
Arizona Association of Defense Counsel
International Association of Special Investigation Units
Arizona Insurance Claims Association
Arizona Society for Healthcare Risk Management

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Speaker, “New FASTAR Civil Rules of Procedure,” Arizona State Farm Claims Litigation Counsel, 2017
Speaker, “New Arizona Federal & State Rules of Civil Procedure,” Tucson Defense Bar, 2016
Speaker, “Approaching Discovery Like a Trial Lawyer,” State Farm Claims Litigation Counsel Arizona Paralegal Summit, 2016
Speaker, “Using Social Media In Civil Trials,” Tucson Defense Bar, 2015