Complex Coverage Litigation

Members of Baker & McKenzie's Insurance Disputes Group handle a variety of complex coverage litigation matters.  A sample of representative matters include the following:

·         Representation of an insurer of major newspaper in a large metropolitan area over defense and coverage under a multimedia communications liability policy for alleged overstatements of the newspaper's circulation.

·         Successful representation of a global insurer in the $3.6 billion property insurance litigation arising out of the destruction of the World Trade Center during terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.

·         Representation of a liability insurer with respect to myriad coverage issues arising out of several race-, age- and sex-based class action lawsuits that resulted in a $45+ million settlement.

·         Representation of a CGL insurer in connection with a state's lawsuit asserting that, so as to allow the state to address long-term environmental care and clean-up responsibilities for landfills fitting the state's definition of "qualified facility," the State can directly sue any insurer of any potentially responsible party for environmental response costs incurred by the state that would have been owed by that responsible party and covered by that insurance.

·         Representation of a CGL insurer in litigation involving alleged environmental property damage at dozens of chemical manufacturing and waste dumpsites, as well as other sites, across the country.

·         Representation of a primary CGL insurer in connection with thousands of individual, multi-plaintiff and class action lawsuits involving damages attributed to synthetic stucco products.

·      Litigation involving claims to insurance coverage under media policies for a substantial underlying settlement involving a Fortune 500 company's alleged theft of trade secrets.