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Liability Coverage

Our Insurance + Reinsurance practice group boasts an international Liability Coverage team on the forefront of cutting-edge issues in liability coverage law. Insurance carriers rely on us for coverage advice and representation in litigation concerning complex and high-value claims arising under various forms of liability insurance throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Greenland, and China.

Our Services

Our experience spans the spectrum of liability coverage matters, including emerging threats, such as cyber risk and data breaches. We serve clients on a wide range of matters, including:

  • Advertising injury
  • Construction defects
  • Directors and officers
  • Educators’ liability
  • Environmental and toxic tort
  • Errors and omissions
  • Hospital, medical, Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs)
  • Intellectual property and patent infringement
  • Personal injury liability
  • Primary and excess disputes
  • Reinsurance contract obligations
  • Sexual abuse and harassment issues

Where multiple coverages are available for a claim, we are skilled in addressing disputes that concern applying multiple self-insured retentions (SIRs), allocating defense and indemnity, and understanding other insurance provisions. In the context of underwriting and marketing compliance issues, our coverage lawyers deal with misrepresentation, rescission, cancellation, and nonrenewal issues.

Our Team

Our lawyers handle the most complex and high-value liability coverage disputes in the country. We have a record of achieving positive results for clients, such as resolving $400 million in claims involving a construction defect dispute in Las Vegas for nuisance value, among many others. We also handle failure to settle cases involving significant excess verdicts, as well as disputes between primary and excess insurers.

Our Liability Coverage attorneys provide seamlessly integrated legal services by collaborating with colleagues across our firm’s diverse practice areas. Our clients benefit from the broad experience and depth of knowledge in our practice groups, including Business Transactions; Health Law; Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration; Insurance; Intellectual Property + Technology; and Litigation.

Our Liability Coverage practice group provides unwavering representation through litigation and counseling of virtually all liability coverage issues your company may face. You can rely on us to handle complex and high-value claims, wherever you do business.

Experience


Multimillion-Dollar Sexual Abuse Settlement

Represented insurance carrier in coverage litigation initiated by major Roman Catholic archdiocese seeking coverage for multimillion-dollar settlement with alleged victims of clergy sexual abuse.

Opioid-Related Coverage Investigations

Advised insurers in multiple coverage investigations regarding decades of coverage purchased by manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of opioids in connection with the current onslaught of lawsuits by an increasing number of governmental and other entities.

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Multi-Party Construction Defect Dispute

Represented insurer that issued several years of second and third-layer excess coverage to a steel contractor that was the primary target in a multi-party construction defect dispute in Las Vegas, involving over $400 million in claims.



Publications


Legal Update: COVID-19: Rhode Island’s Governor Raimondo Issues Executive Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Retail Until April 13, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus) teaser
March 30, 2020

Legal Update: COVID-19: Rhode Island’s Governor Raimondo Issues Executive Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Retail Until April 13, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus)

Legal Update: COVID-19: Governor Baker Issues Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Businesses Until April 7, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus) teaser
March 25, 2020

Legal Update: COVID-19: Governor Baker Issues Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Businesses Until April 7, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus)

Legal Update: COVID-19: Rhode Island’s Governor Raimondo Issues Executive Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Retail Until April 13, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus) teaser
March 30, 2020

Legal Update: COVID-19: Rhode Island’s Governor Raimondo Issues Executive Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Retail Until April 13, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus)

Legal Update: COVID-19: Governor Baker Issues Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Businesses Until April 7, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus) teaser
March 25, 2020

Legal Update: COVID-19: Governor Baker Issues Order Closing All “Non-Essential” Businesses Until April 7, 2020 (COVID-19 Coronavirus)