Our Insurance Class Action Litigation practice group defends insurers in putative class actions, including cases involving coverage, claim handling, compliance with insurance statutes and regulations, underwriting, and other issues. We have defended insurers as lead national counsel in class actions across the country, including cases from New York to Texas, Massachusetts to California.

We have been at the forefront of the high-profile insurance litigation arising from the September 11 catastrophe, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Chinese Drywall, Storm Sandy and COVID-19 pandemic, among many other matters. We also have had a leading role in prominent insurance class action issues such as general contractor overhead and profit, labor depreciation and automobile total loss valuation. Through our deep knowledge of insurance, together with class action law, we resolve many insurance class actions swiftly and efficiently, achieving cost savings for our clients.

Our Services

We have extensive experience with insurance coverage issues, policy forms, insurance statutes and regulations, and industry business practices. Together with our clients, we develop innovative strategies for dispositive motions and other means of achieving early resolution of putative class actions. We also assist insurers and insurance industry associations in efforts to shape the law in appellate courts nationwide.

Class actions we have handled include:

• Prevailing on dispositive motions in numerous putative class actions involving COVID-19 business interruption insurance claims.
• Prevailing in the South Carolina Supreme Court in a labor depreciation class action.
• Prevailing on dispositive motions or class certification in numerous putative class actions involving general contractor overhead and profit.

Robinson+Cole successfully petitioned the United States Supreme Court to grant certiorari and served as co-counsel on the merits in Standard Fire Insurance Company v. Knowles, 133 S. Ct. 1345 (2013), in which the Court rejected a plaintiff's attempt to evade federal jurisdiction by stipulating that the amount sought would not exceed the $5 million threshold under the Class Action Fairness Act.

Our Team

Our Insurance Class Action Litigation team integrates extensive class action litigation experience with deep knowledge of the insurance industry.

Our practice group chair, Wystan Ackerman, writes the Class Actions Insider blog—which follows developments in insurance industry class action law nationwide. Our team members are leaders in the national class action defense bar, having chaired the class action groups of the Defense Research Institute (DRI) and the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC).

Our group of Insurance Class Action Litigation advocates provides legal services for insurers in complex and precedent-setting insurance coverage litigation nationwide. You can rely on us to provide adroit representation, focused on achieving your business objectives and limiting exposure.