Insurance Industry

COMMERCIAL LITIGATION/RESTRICTIVE COVENANT CASES

Insurance is a competitive industry, and our clients regularly hire us to prosecute and defend restrictive covenant and trade secret matters to protect their valuable relationships and intellectual property. Our attorneys have a deep knowledge of the law pertaining to non-compete agreements, customer and employee non-solicitation clauses, and confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements. We leverage our experience and knowledge of the law to develop the facts to obtain the best results for our clients. Our team is ready on a moment’s notice to spring into action to obtain temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions or to defend injunction motions filed by your competitors. We are also adept at mediating and settling restrictive covenant cases and collaborate with our partners across practice groups to obtain the best possible negotiated resolution.

FRAUD INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION

Fraud is widely prevalent across the insurance industry, and can cost insurers millions of dollars per year. White and Williams’ attorneys work closely with their insurer clients to investigate and combat insurance fraud, to recover moneys lost, and to formulate strategies designed to mitigate future risk. Whether on our own or in close collaboration with an insurer’s in-house team of fraud investigators, our attorneys dig deep to identify and unravel complex instances of fraud, and formulate effective and aggressive strategies for pursuing wrong-doers through affirmative litigation.

BANKRUPTCY AND REORGANIZATION

White and Williams lawyers can expertly assist insurers in navigating safely through the sometimes treacherous intersections between insurance law and bankruptcy law. More and more insureds are using Chapter 11 as a means of resolving environmental, toxic tort, product defect and sexual abuse claims. Bankruptcy can have a significant impact on how claims are defended and settled, and on where and how coverage issues are litigated. Our bankruptcy, insurance coverage, and defense groups work together to protect the rights of insurers in the bankruptcy process and to resolve coverage issues fairly and efficiently, whether through bankruptcy litigation, plan negotiations or complex mediations.

HEALTHCARE

Our multidisciplinary team of healthcare experts help health insurers and providers alike navigate the ever-changing and increasingly complex world of health care payments and delivery. We represent insurers, employers, brokers, re-insurers, third-party administrators, self-insureds, ERISA plans and related entities in a wide array of matters. Our lawyers have a wealth of experience and broad knowledge from years of handling complex and unique issues under both individual and group plans. We also conduct audits for health insurance providers to assess policies/procedures, ensure compliance with contracts and stated policies/procedures, evaluate claims handling, and monitor/assess for proper reserves and risk management.

LITIGATION

White and Williams delivers premier liability defense for liability insurers and their insured. Our multidisciplinary team of subject matter experts handle all manner of liability claims including catastrophic personal injury and property loss as well as employment and complex corporate liability claims. We counsel insurers on claims handling processes and defend insurers against allegations of bad faith. Our appellate lawyers have had tremendous success overturning adverse or otherwise excessive verdicts against insurers and their insured alike.

APPEALS

Insurers are often faced with matters surrounding the potential for appeals from trial court and the appellate process. The firm’s Appellate Practice Group not only prepares creative and effective appellate papers and arguments, but also provides assistance to our insurance industry clients with the development of litigation strategy, preparation of dispositive motions, monitoring of trial and preparation of post-trial motions to effectively address issues impacting insurers and their insureds through the litigation process. The Appellate Practice Group is called upon to collaborate with most, if not all, of the other practice groups at White and Williams throughout the entire litigation process.

SUBROGATION

White and Williams LLP has one of the oldest subrogation practices in the country practicing in all 50 states. The department offers an aggressive early intervention program utilizing a vast network of screened experts and consultants covering a wide variety of subrogation related disciplines. The Subrogation department handles high profile commercial property, inland marine, cargo, fidelity, food recall, maritime, worker’s compensation, small water, and cyber losses.

CONSTRUCTION AND SURETY

The attorneys in our Construction and Surety Practices Group have years of experience successfully defending insurers and their insureds in construction defect litigation, including having served as national oversight counsel for insurance company clients for certain types of construction defect cases. We have tried cases throughout the country on behalf of insureds involved with construction-site accidents that have resulted in major property loss and serious personal injuries. Our Surety team regularly represents insurance/surety clients in regard to all aspects of suretyship, including drafting and enforcing indemnity agreements and equitable subrogation rights, managing defaults and takeover situations, and defending payment and performance bond claims and bad faith claims asserted against sureties.