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Practice/Industry Group Overview
An Insurance Company's Greatest Ally.
Luce Forward’s insurance litigation team specializes in defending insurance companies and related entities against class actions, “unfair competition” suits, and lawsuits alleging “bad faith” or other tort theories arising out of firstparty and third-party insurance claims. The team represents the nation’s largest insurance carriers, and is led by highly respected attorneys who are recognized as leaders in the field of insurance litigation.
Our attorneys not only have extensive jury trial experience in both state and federal courts, they are also appellate specialists who have consistently obtained favorable results for clients, often shaping the law in the process. Although we have a near perfect track record in trial, we specialize in winning cases before trial. Indeed, we have obtained defense judgments before trial in over 500 cases.
The group also serves as national counsel for major insurers on institutional issues and other matters involving significant financial risk.
An Unparalleled Track Record.
The insurance litigation practice group has a phenomenal track record in court. We have:
- defended over 2,000 lawsuits
- obtained defense verdicts on the merits in over 500 cases, including 50 cases in the past year alone
- defended more than 100 class action and representative action lawsuits (Over 85% of the class action suits were won by motion, the remaining few were settled on terms favorable to clients.)
- handled dozens of jury trials in litigation arising out of natural catastrophes and obtained defense verdicts in 100% of those trials
Representative Published Decisions.
Our insurance litigation attorneys are also appellate specialists who have consistently obtained favorable results for clients in numerous published and unpublished decisions.
- 21st Century Insurance Co. v. Superior Court, 47 Cal.4th 511 (2009)
- Maystruk v. Infinity Ins. Co., 175 Cal. App.4th 881 (2009)
- Allstate Ins. Co. v. Superior Court, 151 Cal.App.4th 1512 (2007)
- Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club v. Superior Court, 148 Cal.App.4th 1218 (2007)
- Maynard v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 499 F.Supp.2d 1154, 2007 WL 2230932 (C.D.Cal. 2007)
- Cook v. Allstate Ins. Co., 337 F.Supp.2d 1206 (C.D. Cal. 2004)
- Adams v. Allstate Ins. Co., 187 F.Supp.2d 1207 (C.D. Cal. 2002)
- Basich v. Allstate Ins. Co., 87 Cal.App.4th 1112 (2001)
- Guebara v. Allstate Ins. Co., 237 F.3d 987 (9th Cir. 2001)
- Hamilton v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 270 F.3d 778 (2001)
- Smith v. Allstate Ins. Co., 160 F.Supp.2d 1150 (S.D. Cal. 2001)
- Turner v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 92 Cal.App.4th 681 (2001)
- Fraley v. Allstate Ins. Co., 81 Cal.App.4th 1282 (2000)
- Nager v. Allstate Ins. Co., 83 Cal.App.4th 284 (2000)
- Charlin v. Allstate Ins. Co., 19 F.Supp.2d 1137 (C.D. Cal. 1998)
- Singh v. Allstate Ins. Co., 73 Cal.App.4th 135 (1998)
- Hill v. Allstate Ins. Co., 962 F.Supp. 1244 (C.D. Cal. 1997)
- Vashistha v. Allstate Ins. Co., 989 F.Supp. 1029 (C.D. Cal. 1997)
- Freudenberger v. Allstate Ins. Co., 941 F.Supp. 940 (S.D. Cal. 1996)
- Aceves v. Allstate Ins. Co., 68 F.3d 1160 (9th Cir. 1995)
- Allstate Ins. Co. v. Madan, 889 F.Supp. 374 (C.D. Cal. 1995)
- Richmond v. Allstate Ins. Co., 897 F.Supp. 447 (S.D. Cal. 1995)
- Castro v. Allstate Ins. Co., 855 F.Supp. 1152 (S.D. Cal. 1994)
- Cuevas v. Allstate Ins. Co., 872 F.Supp. 737 (S.D. Cal. 1994)
- Lally v. Allstate Ins. Co., 724 F.Supp. 760 (S.D. Cal. 1989)
We protect you so you can continue to protect others.
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