Keeping our clients covered.
Husch Blackwell’s Insurance team covers virtually every segment of the insurance industry nationally and internationally. Our team represents insurance and reinsurance providers and agencies in litigation, insolvency, regulatory, and transactional matters. In issues involving property and casualty, life, health and welfare, fiduciary errors and omissions, liability, title, or workers' compensation insurance, we have the experienced, dedicated professionals it takes to develop solutions that achieve client business objectives.
We also offer comprehensive advice on policy coverage and procurement, loss mitigation strategies, dispute resolution, regulatory and compliance issues, technology matters, tax questions, insurance investment management and dispositions, and insurance carrier and agency acquisitions and divestitures. Further, our government affairs professionals and lobbyists are seasoned advocates for our clients, tracking and influencing legislative developments in their best interests.
Husch Blackwell plays an active role in important insurance industry associations for a front-row view into industry trends, and we regularly represent some of the leading insurance carriers in the world.
Our guidance to clients in the insurance sector includes:
- Agency and broker services
- Coverage evaluation and disputes
- Federal and state regulatory and compliance
- Financing
- Government affairs and lobbying
- Insurance carrier and agency acquisitions and divestitures
- Insurance investment management and dispositions
- Loss mitigation strategies
- Policy coverage and procurement
- Taxation
Insurance Coverage and Disputes
Husch Blackwell lawyers have broad experience litigating virtually every kind of coverage claim. Our attorneys have secured favorable results for our clients in all manner of litigated and arbitrated coverage disputes involving general liability, property damage, directors and officers (D&O) liability, errors and omissions (E&O) liability, employee dishonesty, professional liability, products liability, premises liability, business interruption, aviation risk, cyber risk, fire, flood, windstorm, life and health, and numerous other specialty forms. Our attorneys also have gained broad experience representing our clients in coverage claims for asbestos, environmental, and toxic tort liabilities.
We represent insurers in all types of litigation and disputes, including:
Coverage Evaluation and Disputes
- Actions to rescind policies for fraud or misrepresentation
- Evaluating duty to defend and indemnify under all types of liability insurance, including D&O, E&O, professional liability, builder's risk, employment practices (EPL), and commercial general liability (CGL) policies
- Extra-contractual liability, including for bad faith, vexatious refusal, punitive damages, and statutory penalty claims
- Property claims and disputes, including for business interruption and extra expense
- Credit insurance
- Cyber insurance (first and third party) coverage evaluation and disputes
- Real estate title insurance
- Parametric and crop insurance coverage and disputes
- Specialty lines and manuscript policies
Class Action Litigation
- Aftermarket crash part issues
- Employment classification of insurance agents
- Independent contractor defense of insurance agents
- Insurance claims handling and underwriting practices
- Medical bill review and repricing
- Med-pay provision issues and calculation of premiums
- Rates and rate-making
- Replacement value calculations for homeowners' insurance
Insolvency
- Claims adjudication
- Coverage disputes
- Insurance commutations and rescissions
- Reinsurance and excess insurance
- Representations of supervisors, rehabilitators, and liquidators of financially troubled insurance companies
Other Insurance-Related Claims
- Constitutional challenges to statutory enactments
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and non-ERISA claims
- Insurance broker/agent liability for failure to procure insurance
- Disputes with Health and Human Services