INSURANCE COVERAGE LITIGATION

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:

  • Advertising Injury
  • Asbestos (products)
  • Asbestos (non-products)
  • Blood Products
  • Breast Implants
  • Construction Defect
  • Defective Building Products
  • Environmental Bodily Injury
  • Hearing Loss
  • 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
Here is a small sample of recent and current representations by the Firm’s coverage litigators:
  • 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
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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