Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

The Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Group has been servicing the insurance industry for decades and has established a national reputation, particularly in the area of complex and emerging coverage issues. Our group is comprised of  industry-leading professionals with real-world experience that enables us to understand the challenges our clients face in this highly regulated arena. We counsel clients on coverage questions, partner with claim professionals in investigating and handling sensitive claims and represent carriers in prosecuting and defending coverage and bad faith actions in federal and state courts and through other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Among our clients are major property and casualty insurers, and smaller regional insurance companies, for whom we do work on a national or regional basis.

We are in the forefront representing clients in complex and emerging coverage matters involving issues that continue to challenge insurers and which have been hotly contested by policyholders.  These matters include coverage for:

• asbestos
• advertising injury
• antitrust
• bad faith
• construction defect
• drugs and medical devices
• environmental pollution
• employment practices
• ERISA
• intellectual property
• mortgage insurance
• residual value leases
• personal and product disparagement
• professional liability
• public entities
• TCPA
• technology and trade secret misappropriation
• toxic tort
• transportation liability

Often times, we collaborate with lawyers from our varied practice groups who also advise the insurance industry.

We are not only dedicated to our clients, but to the insurance industry as a whole. Many of our lawyers have held leadership positions in various insurance-related associations, including the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC), DRI, Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) and Lawyers for Civil Justice.

In order to help our clients keep pace with the multitude of new and challenging issues that arise, we regularly speak and write on topics of interest to the insurance industry. In 2007, we developed Coverage College®, the firm’s premier educational program for insurance claims professionals and one of the largest programs of its kind in the country. Each year more than 450 professionals from across the country gather for a day-long program which includes master-level educational programs, breakout sessions and networking opportunities. Classes are taught by a “faculty” of over 30 lawyers from White and Williams. We regularly publish “Binding Authority,” an email newsletter that provides summaries and in-depth analysis of just-issued significant insurance coverage decisions.