LITIGATION

Insurance Coverage

We provide a full range of counseling and litigation services to our clients on insurance coverage issues. Our litigation attorneys are experienced in evaluating various types of insurance policies, including commercial general liability, officer and director liability, errors and omissions, builders’ risk and specialty policies, as well as fidelity and surety bonds. Through negotiations or litigation, we have successfully resolved claims regarding the scope of coverage, advancement of defense costs, settlement of claims within policy limits and bad faith denial of coverage or other benefits. We also represent clients in evaluating primary and secondary coverage issues and in evaluating coverage available to adverse parties to facilitate resolution of disputes and maximize our clients’ potential recovery.

Attorneys representing clients in insurance coverage matters have a wide range of litigation experience in both state and federal courts and are actively involved in a variety of bar association activities that focus on insurance practice issues. We pride ourselves on our ability to resolve disputes economically and expeditiously, and our insurance coverage lawyers are experienced in all aspects of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms as a means of resolving coverage issues.

HIGHLIGHTS

Seven Shartsis Friese partners were chosen as The Best Lawyers in America 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc. more >>

“Poisoned Ivy”: Charitable trust case against Princeton highlighted in WSJ. more >>

Cristina Rubke, a second-year associate at San Francisco’s Shartsis Friese, works on the firm’s biggest case, representing minority members  more >>

In a case closely watched by the alternative dispute resolution community, the California Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court decision today.   more >>

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