Ashley Kalifeh focuses on financial services, insurance regulation, civil justice, and land use, representing clients before Florida’s legislative and executive branches. A practicing attorney before holding several leadership roles within the Department of Financial Services, her experience spans both public and private sectors, enabling her to assist clients with regulatory, legislative, and legal challenges. Her subject matter expertise also spans various markets and issues, including property, auto, workers’ compensation, title, life & health, as well as agent and agency regulation, consumer finance, securities, and state contracting.
Ashley’s research on Florida’s insurance market has been published numerous times, and her findings regarding Florida’s first-party litigation challenges became the foundation for improvements to both the property and auto markets. She has also led a number of other high-profile reforms, including on medical damages, premises liability, bad faith, telephone/electronic solicitation, and data breach exposure, which have ameliorated Florida’s reputation as a “judicial hellhole.”
Ashley also has experience assisting clients navigate the state appropriations process, particularly on issues pertaining to child welfare and well-being, and is dedicated to the mission of programs like Guardian ad Litem, advocating for the best interests of children adjudicated.
Ashley is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and of Florida State University’s College of Law.