Insurance Litigation

We mitigate risk and protect capital and reputations through a full array of insurance defense, coverage, and related services for insurers, self-insurers, policy holders, and TPAs in state and federal courts in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

What We Do

We advise insurers and defend their insureds in high exposure matters involving Commercial Auto and Trucking, Commercial General Liability, Employer Liability, Products-Completed Operations, Excess, Umbrella, and other types of casualty policies and coverages. We also provide coverage opinions, defend bad faith and other first-party claims against insurers, and prosecute and defend declaratory judgment actions.

How We Help

Our insurance litigation experience includes the defense of first and third-party claims in cases involving:

- Auto-Trucking Accidents
- Bad Faith and 93A
- Coverage
- Commercial Property
- Commercial Transportation
- Construction Sites
- Dram Shop Liability
- Employer Liability
- Fraternal Organizations
- Premises Liability
- Product Liability
- Property Management
- Restaurant and Retail
- Security
- Vehicle Leasing
- Schools and Churches
- Umbrella and Excess Liability
- Uninsured and Underinsured Motorists
Our attorneys also provide policy procurement services and have experience working with risk managers and brokers to purchase insurance coverage for large organizations.

Why Clients Choose Us

With decades of experience representing insurers and their insureds, our attorneys bring a deep command of substantive insurance and tort law and a practical understanding of how casualty policies operate in real-world disputes. We are highly experienced in analyzing complex policy language, identifying applicable coverages, exclusions, and limitations, assessing primary, excess, and concurrent coverages, and navigating the tripartite relationship among the insurer, insured, and counsel with precision and professionalism. We deploy well-considered strategies for early case resolution, dispositive motion practice, and thorough case preparation for trial, when necessary. Our attorneys are well acquainted with investigators, judges, jury pools, and mediators in each jurisdiction and draw from a deep bench of experts across multiple disciplines to posture cases for success.

Representative Work

- Defense on behalf of insurers involving employer, fleet auto, trucking, leasing, construction, commercial property, homeowners, and other policies of insurance.
- Defense of insurance coverage and bad faith claims against insurers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and pro hac vice, in New Hampshire.
- Response to Mass. Gen. Laws c. 93A claims on behalf of insurers and businesses.
- Declaratory judgment actions on behalf of insurers in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
- Defense of product liability claims in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and pro hac vice, in New Hampshire, Maine, and Delaware.
- Prosecution and defense of appeals on behalf of product manufacturers in the Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts.
- Commercial policy procurement and advisory services on behalf of insureds in Massachusetts.