Complex Coverage and Claims Disputes
Overview
BCLP’s insurance coverage lawyers have extensive experience litigating novel and complex insurance and reinsurance coverage issues in jurisdictions across the United States and the world. We have litigated and arbitrated high stakes third-party coverage disputes across a broad spectrum of policy lines, including disputes related to coverage for directors & officers and business entity liability claims, mergers and acquisitions, environmental contamination, product liability, cyber liability and professional liability. Likewise, we have litigated and resolved first-party property and business interruption coverage disputes, as well as reinsurance disputes, class actions and bad faith claims. We also serve as national coordinating counsel assisting our clients in formulating common litigation strategies for hundreds of related claims and managing the ongoing nationwide defense against these claims. BCLP’s insurance disputes lawyers can be entrusted with complex coverage matters under all policy lines and in venues, judicial and otherwise, across the globe. BCLP’s insurance coverage lawyers work closely with and are integrated within the firm’s transactional and regulatory insurance practice, as well as other practices that address insurance issues on a daily basis. This collaboration across multiple practice groups and geographies provides our coverage litigators with specialized knowledge of the relevant policies and policy provisions and their drafting and regulatory history. It also allows us to be intimately familiar with the business purposes these policies serve. With this specialized knowledge, our coverage lawyers regularly advise clients during the underwriting process and strategize on litigation trends, novel exposures and maximizing reinsurance recovery. BCLP’s insurance coverage lawyers serve as both trusted counselors and tireless courtroom advocates for their clients.
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Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Experience
- Defending insurer in putative Missouri class action seeking recovery of business interruption losses related to COVID-19 pandemic.
- Representing multiple clients in connection with RWI coverage issues.
- Represented life insurer who was denied coverage based on lapse of premium payment. Eleventh Circuit affirmed Georgia district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of insurer in April 2020.
- Representation of home and auto insurers in serial bad faith litigation based upon a failure to settle within policy limits.
- Coordinating defense counsel in over 500 lawsuits against an insured physician alleged to have performed unnecessary surgeries. Additionally, coordinating related coverage litigation based on a failure to cooperate defense.
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