Buchalter Nemer’s Insurance Industry Practice Group has been handling insurance industry and coverage-related litigation for nearly three decades. 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 Industry Practice Group’s lawyers have decades of expertise in policy language drafting, regulatory disputes and coverage issues involving all lines of insurance as well as surety and fidelity bonds. The Group also works with insurance company in-house attorneys and executives to identify areas in which problems and disputes can be avoided in both operational and coverage arenas.

The Insurance Industry Practice Group works closely with its clients to formulate preventative measures to avoid disputes; however, when arbitration and 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.

The firm represents diverse national and global insurance companies on wide-ranging, insurance-related issues. Our attorneys regularly present speeches, papers and seminars to insurance industry attorneys and executives 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
• Public entity risk pools
• Risk retention groups
• Force placed insurance issues
• Class action defense
• Regulatory and licensing issues
• Third party administration issues
• Policy rescission issues
• Agent and broker issues
• Insurance regulatory and licensing issues
• Risk management and alternatives to insurance