Insurance Coverage Litigation

Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P. (SHB), a leader in representing clients involved in insurance coverage litigation, is equipped to help you resolve your insurance disputes. Our insurance coverage litigation team, known as the SHB Insurance & Reinsurance Practice, draws from our in-depth industry knowledge to manage contentious coverage issues arising in both domestic and international contexts. With insurance and reinsurance attorneys in all of our domestic locations, we are ready to partner with your company to protect your assets in insurance coverage litigation.

Insurance coverage litigation spans a variety of areas, including 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. Our group also has litigated, mediated and negotiated bad-faith claims associated with primary, umbrella and excess policies; first-party property and business interruption policies; fiduciary policies; and errors and omissions policies; as well as claims arising from a broad range of policy forms, including: commercial general liability occurrence and claims-made forms; occurrence reported (Bermuda) forms; special multi-peril forms; environmental impairment liability forms; directors and officers liability forms; and employment practice liability forms.

Insurance coverage litigation also focuses on resolving complex reinsurance disputes. We have litigated, arbitrated and resolved cases involving the scope of ?follow the form? and ?as original? insuring agreements in short-form reinsurance policies; late notice; failure-to-supervise claims activities; follow-the-fortunes clauses; utmost good-faith; motions for pre-answer security and preliminary injunctive relief in aid of arbitration; claims cooperation and right to associate clauses; loss adjustment expense allocation provisions; and agency and intermediary disputes. Our reinsurance lawyers also assume the role of consultants to companies seeking to anticipate and avoid potential coverage disputes.

Contact us with your insurance coverage litigation questions. We look forward to working with you!