Insurance/Reinsurance
Crowell & Moring LLP's Insurance and Reinsurance Group specializes in coverage and reinsurance litigation and arbitration, as well as client counseling and negotiations for insurers and reinsurers. Our practice is recognized as one of the best in its field, as the 2011 Chambers USA guide observes:
"An efficient cross-practice approach allows this firm to handle insurance matters relating to bankruptcy and financial lines issues for both domestic and foreign clients. This adds to its prominent insurance and reinsurance focus, particularly dealing with complex coverage litigation... 'The team litigates very well but also takes a practical approach and understands that litigation isn't the answer to everything.'"
Our team includes more than 40 insurance and reinsurance attorneys working out of the firm's Washington, D.C., New York, and California offices. Our clients operate in all lines of business, including property and casualty, life, accident and health, management liability (Directors & Officers, Errors & Omissions), financial lines, surety, financial guaranty, and health care. We also advise captive insurers in a wide variety of industries, and represent insurance brokers and reinsurance intermediaries on errors and omissions claims and related litigation.
Examples of the work we handle across our practice include matters ranging from:
- coverage litigation involving natural disasters, such as the San Diego wildfires and Hurricane Katrina, to
- multi-million dollar reinsurance disputes involving property and casualty, life, and managed healthcare coverage, to
- coverage litigation involving mass tort claims under general liability policies, to
- representing insurers in bankruptcies of policyholders, to
- litigation involving allegations of professional negligence against a UK reinsurance intermediary on claims involving facultative obligatory reinsurance, to
- representation of clients in the Home and Midland liquidation proceedings;
- regulatory investigations in India involving a notorious financial scandal, among many others.
Beyond our core insurance and reinsurance capabilities, we also regularly collaborate across practice groups in our firm to meet the full range of our clients' business and legal needs.
For more information regarding Crowell & Moring's Insurance and Reinsurance practice, click on one of our five core areas of expertise:
or contact one of the Group Co-chairs Paul W. Kalish or Clifford B. Hendler at (202) 624-2500.