Peggy Sharon

Senior Partner

Email: peggysh@levitansharon.co.il
Languages: +972 3 6886768, English, German (basic)

Head of the Litigation Department dealing with multi-jurisdictional claims, Class Actions, Insurance Coverage Litigation of all types of insurance. Her vast experience in litigation makes her one of the most prominent litigators in Israel.

Peggy’s team has special expertise in complex Space and Aviation Product Liability and subrogation claims on behalf of local and foreign insurers.

Practice Areas:

Litigation Department, Class Action claims and international complex litigation.

Education: Graduate (Summa Cum Laude) of the Tel Aviv University

Status: Legal 500 , 2022 - Hall of Fame WWL (Who's Who Legal) Insurance & Reinsurance – leading individuals - for 2022: "Peggy Sharon from Levitan, Sharon & Co is a market leader for coverage litigation in a variety of insurance disputes, from professional liability claims to class actions."

Membership: The Israel Bar Association, Co-Head of the Bar Committee of Torts and Insurance. Since October 2018, President of AIDA World, the international association of insurance Law (Association International de Droit D' Assurance) and President of the AIDA Israel Branch.

Career:

Peggy has several precedents of the Supreme Court on her name.
In addition, Peggy has published and lectured extensively in seminars of the Israeli Bar Association and educational institutes managed by Tel Aviv University. Her publications include the Israeli chapter in International Execution Against Judgment Debtors; Attacking Foreign Assets, published by the Center for International Legal Studies (Lloyds of London Press); International Franchising (part of the 2007 Comparative Law Yearbook series), Israeli chapter, published by Wolters Kluwer; and the Israeli section in Enforcement of Foreign Judgments (comparative reviews), published by LLP Limited; co-author of the Israeli chapter of the comparative book on World Class Action edited by Baker Law. The Israeli chapter of Transparency in Insurance, AIDA Research Series, published by Springer, 2019.On a regular basis Peggy publishes articles in ILO and Lexology.

Peggy regularly lectures on various insurance topics to insurance companies, members of the Israel Bar Association, AIDA World, and in academic forums.

Peggy was involved in crisis management, as well as product contamination claims .The recent claim relating to product recall was a claim whereby the product (frozen food) was recalled due to Listeria.
Peggy is involved in subrogation claims of Insurers who paid under the Terrorism policy. The claim was filed against the Israeli Tax Authority.
Peggy was appointed as an outside Counsel for the Governmental Company “Kanat” – The Government Fund for the insurance of Natural Disasters in Agriculture.
Peggy was appointed (in October 2018) as the President of AIDA World – The International Association of Insurance Law, which comprises more than 44 countries and led to comparative researches in Insurance and the initiation of an Insurance Encyclopedia.
Peggy is a co-chairman of the Insurance Committee of the Israeli Bar Association.

Leisure: Painting – visit https://peggysite.co