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CBM Insurance Coverage attorneys:

Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP represents some of the nation’s largest insurance companies in cases involving complex and emerging coverage issues in federal and state courts across the country. Our extensive experience in analyzing coverage issues allows us to assess matters promptly and to formulate the most cost-effective and strategically advantageous approaches to claim resolution, whether in negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation. In most of our cases, we lead joint defense groups, as our experience has shown that in multi-party cases the best results are obtained by controlling the litigation.

Strategic and Preventative Approaches to Coverage Issues

In addition to representing our clients in court, we work closely with our clients’ high-level management to determine strategic approaches to coverage issues. Our practice emphasizes prompt, timely and superlative client service. We provide advice on coverage questions, prepare projections of future liability based upon different allocation methods, assist claim analysts in handling difficult claims and propose policy language limiting exposure for mass tort claims.

We also help our clients practice “preventive law” through tailored educational programs on subjects ranging from changes in the law to strategies for avoiding bad faith lawsuits. As part of our client service commitment, we provide presentations in clients’ offices on a wide variety of insurance topics. Sample past presentations have involved topics such as:

  • Allocation of long tail claims and products/non-products coverage;
  • Successor corporation and additional insured coverage;
  • Bad faith issues;
  • Settlement credits, effect of non-cumulation clauses, and sistership exclusions;
  • Coverage issues relating to mold, welding rods, benzene and other mass torts; and
  • Multi-year policy limits and number of occurrences.

Advanced Technology Case Coordination Capabilities

CBM has extensive experience supervising and managing complex litigation on behalf of our clients. We maintain and administer an extensive computerized databank containing significant information developed in each case. The system stores, organizes and retrieves information relating to every aspect of the case, including coverage analysis, pleadings, motions, discovery, depositions, experts and document production.

The efficiency and success of our insurance group is directly related to our ability to organize, store, search and retrieve the massive amount of information, materials and data generated in each case. Moreover, given the geographic dispersal of local counsel, our clients and the matters we handle, immediate, direct, and cost-effective communications and data transfer between the various members of our team are paramount. CBM is a leader in using state-of-the-art technology to serve our clients’ needs. Our investment in technology includes a full-time, professional information technology department with some of the most capable professionals in the field.