Insurance Coverage and Litigation Practice

The firm's insurance coverage team has extensive experience in advising clients on and litigating the interpretation of insurance contracts and the implied rights and obligations that arise from an insurance contract. We are also experienced in writing coverage opinions, writing and responding to reservations of rights letters, and dealing with insurance laws. Our attorneys handle coverage analysis and issues for both insurers and insureds. The firm also has experience in class action and multi-district litigation cases.

Representative activities include:

• Insurance coverage advice and litigation through appeal for full range of coverage issues
• Catastrophic insurance claims and disaster coverage
• Insurance bad faith and unfair trade practices litigation
• Insurance class action defense 
• Life, health, and disability insurance litigation
• Insurance and reinsurance arbitration
• Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation
• ERISA claims, preemption, and fiduciary issues
• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) issues
• Reinsurance and stop-loss policy litigation
• Broker-dealer and securities litigation
• Insurance agent and broker errors and omissions
• Insurance agent and broker misrepresentations
• Duty to defend
• Coverage issues as between multiple layers of coverage
• Rescission of policies and misrepresentations in the application
• Subrogation