Benjamin Roesch

Benjamin Roesch has an active practice focusing on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. Benjamin served as law clerk to Justice Robert Eastaugh of the Alaska Supreme Court and was a partner in a large Seattle law firm, where he focused on insurance and consumer finance issues. He also served a secondment in the London insurance market, where he advised on claims issues.

Before joining Jensen Morse Baker, Benjamin was a supervising attorney in the Consumer Protection Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office, where he spearheaded the Division’s student loan initiative and had day-to-day responsibility for Washington’s investigation into and litigation against two leading credit rating agencies related to their representations about the rating of structured finance securities. In five years, Benjamin’s cases resulted in nearly $37 million in recoveries, as well as significant industry reform. He also supervised a team of attorneys investigating and litigating issues including opioids and other prescription drugs, health care, mortgage loan servicing, and debt collection. Benjamin is currently a fellow with the Student Borrower Protection Center, a new progressive nonprofit focused on reforming the student loan system.