Insurance

Practice Highlights 

• Thousands of coverage litigation and coverage opinions (property, casualty, life, health, disability, errors and omissions, directors and officers, intellectual property) 
• Hundreds of bad faith/extra contractual matters (property and casualty, life, health, disability) 
• Dozens of insurance class actions (property and casualty, health) 
• Hundreds of regulatory matters (life, health, property, casualty, solvency and financial reporting, market conduct, rate, and product form issues) 
• Extensive client counseling, monitoring and other matters for insurance clients (property, casualty, life, health, disability, errors and omissions, directors and officers, intellectual property)

Group members include:

• A former complex claims director with a national insurer 
• A former staff attorney with the Florida Department of Insurance 
• A former staff attorney with the Florida House Health Care & Insurance Committee

Key Matters 

• Defended a national insurer against claims by its insured seeking $25 million in investigation costs under a directors and officers insurance policy
• Defeated motions for class certification in two separate multi-million dollar putative class actions filed against two national insurers
• Defended a national life insurer in a week-long administrative trial brought by the Office of Insurance Regulation, which sought to revoke the insurer’s certificate of authority to write insurance in Florida for alleged violations of the Florida Insurance Unfair Trade Practices Act; Insurer was completely exonerated of all charges
• Obtained an appellate decision in favor of our client in a coverage action, reversing a $3.2 million judgment entered against a national insurer on a duty to defend claim, and obtained judgment in the insurer’s favor where the insured was seeking $5 million policy limits in a duty to indemnify claim, and a possible bad faith claim
• Obtained summary judgment in client’s favor on the FDIC’s $10 million claim for coverage for alleged employee dishonesty under a financial institution bond; Court held the bond’s express language excluded coverage
• Obtained final summary judgment, affirmed on appeal, determining there was no coverage under a $10 million directors, officers and private company liability insurance policy
• Handle all types of matters involving property and casualty insurance, various types of professional liability insurance, D&O and E&O coverages, marine insurance, title insurance, workers’ compensation, life and health insurance, disability insurance, HMOs, and environmental impairment insurance; We also have extensive experience with insurance sales practices matters in both administrative proceedings and civil trials.