Chris Pickett: After a trucking liability insurer denied coverage for an accident involving our client’s insured, our client honored the insured’s uninsured motorist (“UM”) claim. The UM arbitration resulted in a $500,000 award, which our client later settled for less than the award. In the ensuing subrogation action, we obtained […]

Kate Crouch earned a verdict significantly below our last offer in a rear-end auto accident case. We admitted negligence, but denied causation and contested the nature and extent of the plaintiff’s injuries.  The jury accepted and adopted our position that only the first year of medical treatment was related to […]

Chris Pickett: Our client’s named insured was the general contractor for new residential construction. The homeowner sued after claiming that defective construction resulted in water and mold damage to the property, as well as mental suffering related to mold exposure. We obtained summary judgment by arguing that damage to the […]

Chris Pickett – The additional insured demanded defense and indemnity from our client totaling over $200,000 but failed to give notice of the underlying lawsuit for over a year.  The court granted our motion for summary judgment after finding that the delay violated the notice condition and voided coverage.

Chris Pickett: We represented a CGL insurer who undertook the defense of its named insured for an underlying construction defect claim but was subject to an ROR for damage to the insured’s own work or product.  The insured demanded independent “Peppers” counsel and filed a DJ demanding control of the […]