Insurance Coverage

Representative Clients

  • Counsel for Aioi Insurance Company, Ltd. in a dispute with a managing general agent and its auditors regarding the alleged misappropriation of massive commissions and related fees related to the purchase and sale of financial reinsurance coverage.
  • National coordinating counsel for Home Indemnity Company and Home Insurance Company in environmental contamination coverage lawsuits in nine states arising out of the pollution activity of a major chemical manufacturer.
  • Counsel for Travelers Insurance Company in the seminal North Carolina Supreme Court case establishing the meaning of the terms "damages," "property damages" and "suit" in a commercial general liability policy.
  • Counsel for Home Insurance Company in environmental contamination coverage action involving multiple sites in South Carolina.
  • Counsel for Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (now Travelers) in bad faith/insurance coverage litigation over construction defects in South Carolina federal court.
  • Counsel for Insteel Industries, Inc. in a Virginia federal court action involving first party business interruption and property damage claims against its insurer in a roof collapse case.
  • Counsel for policyholders in a North Carolina action against the underinsured motorist carrier for wrongful denial of coverage in a catastrophic personal injury case.
  • Counsel for Travelers in a North Carolina Supreme Court decision establishing that excess and umbrella policies are not required to provide underinsured motorist insurance.
  • Counsel for Travelers in several cases regarding scope of additional insured endorsements.
  • Counsel for Travelers in in a North Carolina Court of Appeals decision establishing the absence of "bad faith" when adjusting workers compensation claims.
  • Counsel for Travelers in class action lawsuit regarding credits for medical payments coverage in settlements.
  • Counsel for Travelers in a Fourth Circuit case holding that there is no coverage for Woodson claims in employers liability policies in North Carolina.