Our lawyers have represented policyholders, insurers, reinsurers, general agents, and financial institutions in insurance litigation ranging from coverage to bad faith claims.
Representative experience includes:
- Obtaining a favorable settlement for a major oil company in a $50 million lawsuit involving property damage from Tropical Storm Alicia.
- Obtaining summary judgment for a major New York insurance company in a $25 million lawsuit alleging that the insurance company was liable for an agent's alleged fraud.
- Representing an insurer headquartered in Massachusetts in a lawsuit brought by a former agent seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions. The parties reached a settlement during trial.
- Obtaining a dismissal of claims that our client breached a contract to sell a portfolio of insurance products.
- Settling a lawsuit against two insurance agents, six insurance companies and a law firm for nearly $7 million after four days of trial in a Galveston County, Texas state court. The lawsuit alleged that the defendants negligently advised a 90-year-old widow and her 65-year-old son to sell their Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. stock and use the proceeds to purchase life insurance and annuities as part of an "estate tax plan."
- In the Enron litigation, representing an insurance company that provided directors and officers coverage.
- Obtaining full dismissals of multiple lawsuits due to improper direct action pleadings within policy limits, many with no payments and none in excess of policy limits.
- Negotiating the settlement of an insured’s collision, where the insured was driving in the wrong direction, for less than the policy limit in a case with potentially significant exposure.
- Obtaining settlement at full policy limits for the wrongful death of a pedestrian struck by a motor vehicle in limited lighting circumstances.
- Negotiating a settlement for ten times the injured client’s actual medical bills in a motor carrier accident.