The firm has a well-developed practice in insurance, with particular experience with insurance issues related to bankruptcies. Our insurance expertise with bankruptcy issues has allowed us to represent insurance holding companies, as well as assisting debtors with captive insurance companies, complicated insurance programs, and significant coverage issues, all to maximize their opportunity to reorganize successfully. Moreover, the firm has a demonstrated expertise in dealing with insurance issues and section 524 (g) of the Bankruptcy Code in the reorganization or liquidation of companies affected by asbestosis. We have also developed a national practice of representing creditors’ committees in the bankruptcies of Catholic dioceses and religious orders in which we have been involved in obtaining insurance for the victims of sexual abuse.
We also have a track record with insurance insolvencies and the complex relationship between bankruptcy concepts and state insurance insolvency proceedings.
Our insurance expertise and knowledge have resulted in substantial litigation representation. Our attorneys have litigated insurance coverage disputes regarding reinsurance, D & O and environmental issues, as well as insurance issues arising out of bankruptcies, including complex jurisdictional disputes involving bankruptcy and state insurance insolvency proceedings.
Insurance litigation subpractice areas:
- Brokers, agents, and intermediaries
- Captives
- D&O and other insurance coverage
- Guaranty associations
- Holding Company Act and holding company bankruptcies
- Insolvency
- Insurance regulation
- Life and P&C insurance companies
- Reinsurance
- Section 524(g)
- Tax insurance issues
- Victims of sexual abuse (religious entity bankruptcies)
- Workers compensation deposits
Representative Cases
American Suzuki Motor Corporation
Circuit City Stores
Thorpe Insulation Company
Diocese of Davenport
Catholic Diocese of Spokane
Flintkote Company
Combustion Engineering
ACandS, Inc.
Federal-Mogul
Superior National Insurance Group
First Executive Corporation
First Capital Holdings Corporation
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Fremont General Insurance Group
Sizzler International - Australia
Ascent Media
Commonwealth and Underwriters at Lloyd's
Equitable Life Assurance Society of America
Executive Life Insurance Company
Mission Insurance Group
Reinsurance Association of America
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