Insurance Attorney

An insurance policy is a special agreement between the insurer and the insured. To be enforceable, the insurance policy must meet all of the usual requirements of a contract and, in addition, the insured must have an "insurable interest" in the subject matter being insured, such as property, life and health. Businesses typically carry basic property insurance and commercial liability policies. A breach in those insurance policies sometimes requires an expert in the field. When your company is experiencing these types of issues and you are in need of an insurance attorney, consider Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. (SHB).

We have enjoyed significant international success representing clients involved in insurance coverage disputes. Every insurance attorney at our firm is part of our SHB Insurance & Reinsurance Practice. We draw on our collective team?s in-depth industry knowledge to manage contentious coverage issues.

Clients that have worked with an insurance attorney at our firm rely on our extensive experience. In fact, we have handled cases concerning coverage for business torts; toxic torts and environment contamination; products liability; premises liability; professional and fiduciary liability; credit union and banking fraud; punitive damages; advertising injury; construction defects; and intellectual property claims.

Your insurance attorney feels knowledge is one of your biggest assets and will frequently counsel you with regard to the scope of different insurance products, such as best practices in providing notice and claims cooperation and the structuring of corporate purchase and sales transactions to maximize insurance assets.

The insurance attorney you?re working with is also capable of resolving complex reinsurance disputes. The firm currently represents cedents, including captive cedents, reinsurers, and retrocessionaires in diverse matters before state, federal and appellate courts throughout the United States. SHB insurance attorneys are fully conversant in all types of domestic and international proportional and nonproportional facultative reinsurance certificates, as well as pro rata, quota share, surplus share, and excess of loss treaty reinsurances and retrocession agreements. Our reinsurance lawyers have also acted as consultants to companies seeking to anticipate and avoid potential coverage disputes.

Contact us at any of our U.S. offices. With a substantial presence in all nine firm offices, our insurance attorneys look forward to working with your company to protect your assets in complex business litigation.