Craig G. Kline focuses his practice on all aspects of insurance including Bad Faith Defense, Environmental Defense, Property, Excess, Contingency, Errors and Omissions Defense, Commercial Property, Regulatory Matters, Litigation and Reinsurance. He has extensive experience in first party insurance and has served as reinsurance consultant and expert. He has represented international companies on matters arising in California as well as the London Market on first-party claims and litigation defense. Mr. Kline also has represented professionals, including attorneys, accountants, insurance agents and brokers, and has represented insurers, acting as monitoring coverage counsel in numerous construction cases. In addition, he advises clients on insurance regulatory matters.
Professional Memberships and Activities
· State Bar of California
· American Bar Association - Litigation Section and Reinsurance Subcommittee Tort and Insurance Practice Section
Speeches and Publications
Mr. Kline has spoken and written on a wide variety of topics within the insurance practice including:
· "Sovereign Immunity," North American Contingency Association (NACA) Annual Conference, May 17, 2012
· "Insurance Coverage Litigation," LawReviewCle Seminar, January 24, 2012
· "Discovery and Confidential Insurance Settlement Agreements," ABA Section of Litigation's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar, March 5, 2011
· Co-Chair at Mealey's Bad Faith Conference in Philadelphia for two consecutive years (2005 - 2006)
· Featured speaker before British Insurance Law Association on subject of non-asbestos mass torts, February 2004
· "A Select Survey of Legal Issues of First-Party Policies for the Insurance Professional Doing Business in the United States," North American Contingency Association, April 19, 2002
· "Recent Developments in U.S. Environmental Litigation," 1998
· "Commutation Prospects on American Business: The Advantage of Being an Informed Reinsurer," 1998
· "Recent U.S. Direct Insurance and Reinsurance Legal Decisions: Their Impact on Europe," 1997
· "General Liability Insurance Coverage Issues in California Construction Defect Cases," 1997
Events
5/17/2012, Sovereign Immunity
MPP partners Penelope Deihl and Craig Kline discussed sovereign immunity and its impact on litigation on Thursday, May 17, 10:15 AM, at the North American Contingency Association (NACA) 15th Annual Conference, held in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1/24/2012, Insurance Coverage Litigation
MPP partner Craig G. Kline presented this topic for a LawReviewCle seminar at the Sheraton Anaheim Hotel, Anaheim, California.
Description: Disputed insurance claims are often complex, and can vary greatly from case to case. This seminar is designed to give you the tools to understand the variety of claims, accurately assess coverage and solve any conflicts that arise during litigation.
3/5/2011, Discovery and Confidential Insurance Settlement Agreements
MPP partner Craig Kline was a speaker in this CLE Breakout Session at the ABA Section of Litigation's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar from 9:05 - 10:05 AM on Saturday, March 5, at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson, AZ.
Description: Insurance coverage litigators will eventually confront a situation where someone is seeking discovery relating to a confidential insurance settlement agreement. The panel will present ideas from both perspectives-how to protect a confidential agreement from disclosure and how to obtain discovery of someone else's confidential settlement agreement.
(Also at Irvine Office)