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INSURANCE COVERAGE LITIGATION
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LITCHFIELD CAVO has a premier insurance
coverage litigation practice, involving representation of insurers
in many types of complex coverage actions. The Firm’s experienced
coverage attorneys have and are currently litigating in hundreds
of major coverage battles in courts, and before arbitration panels
throughout the United States. The Firm’s coverage litigators
have had significant involvement in major coverage litigation battleground
areas during the last two decades, including the following: |
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- Advertising Injury
- Asbestos (products)
- Asbestos (non-products)
- Blood Products
- Breast Implants
- Construction Defect
- Defective Building Products
- Environmental Bodily Injury
- Hearing Loss
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- Hazardous Waste/Pollution
- Lead
- Mold
- PCB’s
- Professional Liability (all forms)
- Repetitive Stress Injuries
- Various Pharmaceutical Products
- Directors’ and Officers’
Liability
- All First Party Matters
- Employment
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Here is a small sample of recent and current representations
by the Firm’s coverage litigators: |
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- Obtained Summary Judgment on the “after
acquired liabilities” issue in an environmental coverage
case involving a copper mine;
- Obtained Summary Judgment on the “pollution
exclusion” in an environmental coverage case involving multiple
sites in which the Firm defended multiple insurers;
- Defended, successfully, an insurer in an
action where the insured sought coverage for Property Damage arising
out of its manufactured-gas plant operations;
- Defended, successfully, multiple insurers
in an environmental coverage case involving over 400 sites;
- Defending an insurer from an insured corporation
seeking tens of millions of dollars in an arbitration involving
the “Bermuda form” policy and building products;
- Defending an insurer in an environmental
property damage case involving the largest Superfund site in the
country;
- Defending multiple insurers in a declaratory
judgment action involving over 50 environmental property damage
sites and tens of thousands of asbestos claimants;
- Defending an insurer in an environmental
bodily injury case involving thousands of claimants
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One of the Firm’s coverage litigation partners
is the former Chairman of Insurance Environmental Litigation Association
charged with monitoring all major coverage actions and litigating
such cases on behalf of the industry. The Firm’s coverage
litigators have also authored many articles on the key topics of
insurance coverage. |
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