Insurance Recovery and Counseling

Recovery

Our firm has recovered tens of billions of dollars in the US alone, and additional recoveries around the world, on insurance claims for policyholder clients. Our approach for maximizing recoveries rests on three key propositions:

1. We provide a policyholder advantage: Engaging our lawyers, who have experience drawn from thousands of policyholder engagements, levels the playing field for the policyholder against an experienced and well-funded insurance bar and industry.
2. We focus on holding insurers accountable: We reinforce the notion that policyholders have the right to be treated fairly and insist that insurers honor their contractual commitments, and we hold insurers accountable to a judge, jury, or other adjudicator if they do not. 
3. We create efficiencies: Our lawyers are dedicated to delivering the highest quality services in an efficient and cost-effective manner. We develop targeted settlement tactics that leverage our policyholder advantage, deploy project management technologies in pursuing litigation, and embrace alternative fee arrangements.

Counseling

Some of our most value-added work comes before a claim or loss arises. Our lawyers, often working with colleagues in other practices, help mitigate risk by analyzing and enhancing insurance contract terms and advising on captive insurance arrangements. In assessing insurance policies, we look not only at the specific contract terms, but the larger context, knowing from first-hand experience how policy language actually is applied in coverage battles.

Transactions and Related Matters

We have substantial experience advising clients on the transferability of insurance coverage rights in the context of mergers, acquisitions, and other types of corporate transactions. We also routinely assist clients in transferring deal-related risk to insurers through the use of representation and warranty insurance and other insurance products offered in the transactional risk insurance market.