Insurance + Reinsurance

Diverse Client Representation

We represent a wide variety of clients in the insurance industry — from publicly traded, international insurers and reinsurers to investment banks, fintechs, and family-owned insurance agencies. Our experience spans both property and casualty as well as life, accident, and health lines of business. Our traditional insurance clients include:

• Insurers
• Reinsurers
• Cedents
• Insurance producers
• Premium finance companies
• Claims adjusters
• Third-party administrators
• Managing general agencies
• Reinsurance intermediaries
• Insurance guaranty funds
• State insurance departments

Additionally, our health care and insurance attorneys collaborate to assist national and regional health insurers, HMOs, other managed care organizations, third-party administrators, and self-insured plans on a wide range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

As trusted counsel to insurance companies around the world, our highest priority is to manage risk and resolve matters as efficiently as possible for our clients. Our team is recognized for representing national and multinational insurers on the toughest matters they face, including complex claims and high-exposure coverage and reinsurance issues. We handle sophisticated coverage litigation in all 50 states and in many international jurisdictions, and have secured landmark rulings that involve tens of billions of dollars. Our commercial litigation team also has a long track record of representing insurance industry clients in their most pressing commercial, corporate, and regulatory disputes.

Aviation Insurance

Our insurance aviation attorneys provide coverage counseling on all types of aviation, airline, and products liability insurance policies, and represent airlines, airframe, and component manufacturers, lessors, suppliers, and security companies in connection with major losses.

Insurtech  Practice

Our insurtech attorneys advise established and startup insurance industry clients across a broad spectrum, including on insurance and reinsurance regulation, fund formation, private equity and venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, data privacy and security, and intellectual property protection. We have experience in blockchain, electronic commerce, payment systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, telematics, and other technologies.

Cyber Insurance

Our cyber insurance team partners with global insurance clients to consider policy wording and potential cyber and privacy exposures under stand-alone cyber policies or endorsements, as well as under a variety of first-party and third-party policies, such as property, CGL, D&O, E&O, fidelity, and EPL. We also assist clients with product development, risk management, and coverage issues.

Industry Involvement

• Our attorneys are members, fellows, or hold leadership positions in legal and trade organizations, including:
• ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
• Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• Aviation Insurance Association
• Defense Research Institute
• International Association of Defense Counsel
• International Aviation Women’s Association
• Litigation Counsel of America
• Maritime Law Association
• National Institute for Trial Advocacy
• Professional Liability Underwriting Society
• Texas Association of Defense Counselage securitization, as well as all other aspects of multifamily housing finance.