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LITIGATION

Insurance Coverage & Bad Faith Litigation

Roetzel’s Insurance Coverage Litigation attorneys represent insurance companies and policyholders nationwide in disputes, negotiations, litigation, settlements, and bad faith allegations. Our attorneys work closely with clients to develop sound coverage opinions based on current law and clearly defined insurance policy provisions.

Our services include case-specific representation, opinions, and analysis, along with consultations on claims handling for insurance companies and risk assessment and management for policyholders. Our attorneys handle declaratory judgment actions and appellate proceedings for court interpretations of policy language and bad faith cases across the country. We have successfully litigated disputes in state and federal courts, primarily in Ohio, achieving numerous reported and unreported insurance coverage decisions

  • Address all lines of commercial insurance coverages for determination of applicability of policy, rights, duties and obligations of the carrier and the insured after a loss including commercial general liability, professional liability, directors and officers, employment practices liability, motor carrier/business auto liability, commercial property, cyber risks, reinsurance, and fidelity among various other types of coverage
  • Address automobile liability and uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage claims
  • Analyze and assess first party property loss claims both on commercial and homeowner policies
  • Analyze and assess insurance coverage issues arising from large environmental losses and toxic torts
  • Analyze and assess aviation coverage and aviation underwriter coverage claims
  • Analyze and assess professional liability insurance policies and claims for coverage
  • Prosecute and defend declaratory judgment actions 
  • Litigate first party bad faith claims
  • Manage construction-related coverage claims including analyzing and assessing coverage obligations, risk transfer issues and litigation defense
  • Oversee director and officers' liability claims and the coverage issues arising therefrom
  • Represent clients in employment-related litigation and the insurance coverage issues arising therefrom
  • Handle errors and omissions coverage claims
  • Manage excess and surplus lines coverage claims
  • Oversee environmental coverage issues
  • Address fidelity/surety claims
  • Investigate fire and arson claims
  • Investigate and consult on insurance fraud claims
  • Handle liability insurance coverage claims
  • Manage life insurance and disability coverage claims
  • Oversee litigation management of declaratory judgment actions, monitoring counsel for excess carriers, oversight as appellate counsel
  • Handle mass tort cases from the insurance coverage perspective for protection of the client’s assets
  • Coordinate transportation incident coverage claims
  • Analyze and assess long tail claims and assist insured client in ensuring proper allocation and utilization of insurance coverages 
  • Provide insurance archeology services
  • Argued on behalf of an insurance company before the Ohio Supreme Court regarding potentially groundbreaking issues involving insurance coverage for employer intentional torts
  • Defended life insurance companies in bad faith insurance coverage matters
  • Serve as statewide coverage counsel for several Ohio liability insurance carriers and national insurance carriers
  • Serve as statewide coverage counsel for an oil and gas insurance carrier
  • Serve as regional counsel for national insurance carrier in the transportation industry
  • Handled multimillion dollar environmental coverage litigation for a corporate industrial client
  • Tried insurance coverage matters involving conditions precedent on policy, including late notice issues
  • Retained to assist in rewriting insurance policies for purposes of compliance with Ohio law
  • Conducted analyses of insurance programs for corporate clients and made recommendations on risk management issues
  • Conducted seminars for insurance carriers and corporate clients on risk management issues, claims procedures, bad faith issues, and updates on Ohio law
  • Represented the Ohio Department of Insurance and the court-appointed liquidator in concluding the affairs of an insurance company
  • Represented both insurance carriers and policyholders in toxic tort matters
  • Handled environmental, toxic tort, product liability, and labor and employment matters for a Fortune 25 international insurance organization providing oversight and management of insurance programs
Key Contact
Laura (Megan) Faust