Experience
Additional Insured Coverage
- Represented Fortune 500 online retailer seeking additional insured coverage and indemnity for multiple matters.
- Represented Fortune 500 retailer in hundreds of matters involving additional insured coverage leading to leading edge legal decisions and recoveries.*
Advertising Coverage
- Litigated coverage for advertising claims for Fortune 500 retailer.*
- Represented national supermarket chain regarding coverage for advertising claim involving the use of trade dress of celebrity.*
Appellate Coverage Law
- Represented multiple policyholder clients in state and federal courts throughout the country on appeal.*
- Prepared numerous amicus curiae briefs for a national policyholder rights organization with several successful appeals.*
Asbestos Insurance Recovery
- Represented multiple Fortune 500 policyholders in insurance recovery litigation in several jurisdictions and successfully obtained significant recoveries in each matter.*
Business Interruption & Property Damage Coverage
- Leading the Perkins Coie Insurance Recovery practice’s pursuit of property, business interruption, and pollution coverage for COVID-19 losses, including claims for clients in hospitality, hotel, mall, food processing, retail, office space, and higher education.
- Representing hotel and resort owners seeking property and business interruption coverage from wildfires and hurricanes.
- Represented Fortune 500 retail company for multiple property damage and related losses, including from Hurricane Katrina.*
- Represented a restaurant company with property damage and business interruption losses from a microburst.*
Data Breaches & Other Cyber Risk Coverage
- Advised multiple companies regarding terms and scope of cyber coverage.
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Represented online company with a dispute over placement and claim under cyber liability policy.
- Represented a real estate company seeking damage for losses from an intentional hacker attack.*
- Represent multiple companies seeking coverage for data breaches, including avoiding rescission.
Directors, Officers & Corporate Liability
- Represented Fortune 500 retailer with coverage for class action claims regarding corporate transactions.*
- Advised multiple companies and individual directors regarding terms and scope of D&O coverage, including in SPAC transactions.
- Advised private equity funds and portfolio companies on claims and interaction of D&O coverage.
Employment Practices and Wage & Hour Liability
- Assisted national hotel chain with COVID-19 pollution coverage for COVID-19 claims.
- Represented Fortune 500 retailer in Wage & Hour coverage involving hourly manager lawsuits and arbitrations throughout the country.
- Represented Fortune 500 retailer in coverage dispute regarding wage and hour class action claims under Employment Practices Liability policy.*
- Advised clients regarding coverage for biometric privacy claims under EPL policies.
Environmental and Pollution Coverage
- Represented Fortune 500 food company in 180 site environmental insurance recovery litigation.*
- Represented multiple policyholders regarding coverage for PFAS environmental clean-up.*
- Pursued historic liability insurance coverage for multiple oil refiners to clean-up facilities.*
- Advised chemical company regarding coverage for clean-up costs under pollution legal liability policies.
Maritime Coverage
- Represented national construction client regarding hull coverage and dock claims.*
- Assist international company with dispute regarding stock throughput policy and coverage of individual vessels.
Products & Services Liability Coverage
- Assisted Fortune 500 client with PFAS product liability coverage.
- Represented Fortune 500 company regarding coverage for aircraft accidents.
- Represented Fortune 500 retailer regarding coverage for multiple products and home installation class actions and severe injury cases.*
- Represented international construction company regarding coverage for claims arising from construction work after Hurricane Katrina.*
Professional Liability
- Represented insurance defense firm regarding attempted rescission of professional liability policy.*
- Advised firms and individuals regarding scope of errors and omissions insurance coverage.
Privacy Coverage
- Represented manufacturer in coverage litigation arising from claims under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
- Advised multiple clients regarding coverage for privacy claims and negotiating policy terms, including under BIPA and the pending CCPA.
*Prior Experience