INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE LITIGATION AND COUNSELING
LCBF’s insurance and reinsurance practice is as varied and sophisticated as our clients. We often render coverage opinions and other pre-litigation advice aimed at avoiding coverage litigation or increasing the likelihood that coverage litigation, if necessary, will be successful.
The firm has represented domestic and foreign insurers as coverage and monitoring counsel in a variety of coverage disputes, lawsuits and domestic and international arbitrations relating to claims arising under a wide range of policies, including:
- primary, umbrella, excess and catastrophic policies
- CGL and multi-peril policies
- directors & officers and errors & omissions policies
- OCIP, CCIP and wrap-up policies
- employment liability policies
- public officials liability policies
- media liability policies
- environmental liability policies
- professional malpractice policies
- railroad protective policies
- first-party property policies.
Equally varied are the underlying claims, which have involved:
- construction accidents and defects
- financial fraud
- pharmaceuticals
- medical products
- asbestos and other products liability
- professional liability
- discrimination
- environmental pollution, including landfills and manufactured gas plants
- unfair competition
- significant transportation accidents
- trademark/patent infringement.
Our clients ask us to take leading roles in high-profile coverage claims and suits, such as those involving the World Trade Center and major construction accidents or alleged construction defects at projects in New York City and around the country. Our insurance and reinsurance attorneys also played leading roles in diet drug, savings and loan crisis and silicone breast implant litigation.
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