Brandon D. Almond

With a comprehensive knowledge of the insurance industry, Brandon advises clients and handles complex litigation with policyholders across the U.S. on a broad range of coverage and bad faith issues arising under a variety of policies, including architects and engineers, health care professionals, and attorneys’ professional liability; directors and officers liability; employment practices liability, media-tech and cyber liability; and commercial general liability. Brandon also regularly provides advice and counseling to insurers and TPAs on various claims-handling and coverage issues, providing “ground-up” advice from initial claim reporting to preparation of coverage opinion letters. Brandon further advises insurance companies and underwriters on claims handling and underwriting best practices, and regularly works with insurers on policy language revisions.

Outside his insurance coverage practice, Brandon has handled complex litigation in a variety of arenas, including bankruptcy, banking, intellectual property, antitrust, commercial disputes, and pharmaceutical. He also has experience in congressional lobbying.

Brandon also has significant pro bono experience, including successfully representing a Salvadoran domestic violence survivor in her and her dependents’ applications for asylum and permanent resident status before the U.S. Immigration Court and Department of Homeland Security, and a six-month rotation at Bread for the City Legal Clinic, representing low-income Washington, D.C., residents in landlord-tenant disputes in the District of Columbia Superior Court.

• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a medical professional liability insurer in coverage litigation brought by an insured nurse staffing agency, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division after oral argument.
• Successfully represented a primary insurer in a bad faith/subrogation action brought by excess insurer.
• Successfully represented an insurer in litigation with the National Football League regarding coverage under commercial general liability policies for the billion-dollar NFL concussion class action settlement and other concussion-related lawsuits.
• Successfully represented a D&O insurer in litigation related to multimillion-dollar government-contract overbilling allegations.
• Successfully represented eight insurers in litigated coverage dispute with other insurers over interpretation of manuscript policy provision in lawyers’ errors and omissions policy.
• Obtained a favorable settlement in cyber liability coverage dispute in U.S. District Court.
• Obtained summary judgment in favor of an architects & engineers liability insurer in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Obtained a favorable settlement under D&O liability policy in coverage litigation arising out of high-profile media conglomerate merger litigation.
• Successfully represented an insurer in bad faith litigation brought by policyholder arising out of insurer’s denial of coverage based on policyholder’s application misrepresentations and omissions.
• Obtained favorable ruling on behalf of a D&O insurer in an arbitration with a state electric company involving coverage for a multibillion dollar wildfire claims.
• Successfully represented an insurer in an action by a prejudgment claimant in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada related to a personal injury suffered on Native American tribal property, with the Ninth Circuit affirming the lower court after oral argument.
• Successfully represented an insurer in a subrogation claim related to trademark violations, in the Ninth Circuit.
• Represents numerous insurers involved in nationwide coverage litigation with respect to health care liability, directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, architects and engineers professional liability, media-tech/cyber liability, and commercial general liability.
• Obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of a national accounting firm in a malpractice suit asserted by the FDIC.
• Secured asylum on behalf of a pro bono client fleeing the domestic violence of her partner in El Salvador. Subsequently secured lawful permanent resident status for client and her children as asylee beneficiaries.

• Best Lawyers in America®: Insurance Law (2024-2026)
• Rising Star, Insurance Coverage, Law & Politics’ Super Lawyers (2016-2018)
• Honors, Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, D.C. Access to Justice Commission and the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center (2020, 2024)