Buchalter’s Insurance Practice Group has been representing policyholders for about 20 years. Our lawyers have an in-depth understanding of insurance industry policies, practices, procedures and issues, both in the policy formation and negotiation stages and in litigation, when it arises.
The Insurance Practice Group works closely with its clients to formulate preventative measures to avoid disputes; however, when arbitration or litigation becomes necessary, our attorneys are experts at handling such proceedings at every stage, from pre-trial strategy through the appeal process. The Insurance Industry Practice Group has successfully resolved complex coverage and contract matters involving hundreds of millions of dollars in dispute through arbitration, trial, and appellate proceedings at all levels of the state and federal court systems.
Our attorneys regularly present speeches, papers and seminars nationwide on a variety of topics, and particularly in areas in which prevention of future disputes is the goal.
Our specialized areas of practice include:
- Errors & Omissions coverage and defense
- Directors & Officers coverage and defense
- Professional liability coverage and defense
- Commercial General Liability coverage and defense
- Property and Casualty coverage and defense
- Business Interruption coverage and defense
- Fidelity and Surety Bond coverage and litigation
- Public entity liability coverage and defense
- Workers’ compensation insurance issues
- Excess, umbrella, surplus lines and specialty lines coverage issues
- Financial institution and instrument coverage issues
- Computer security liability issues
- Pollution coverage issues
- Construction defect coverage issues
- Product liability insurance issues
- Advertising and intellectual property coverage issues
- Homeowner policy coverage
- Title Insurance
- Force placed insurance issues
- Class action defense
- Third party administration issues
- Policy rescission issues
- Agent and broker issues
- Risk management and alternatives to insurance