Insurance
KRCL's Insurance Group has a
broad range of experience representing insurance companies, self-insured entities
and insureds in a variety of matters.
Our attorneys routinely provide analysis of insurance coverage issues
involving commercial general liability, construction, errors and omissions, fidelity,
directors and officers, homeowners, automobile/business auto coverages,
including uninsured/underinsured motorists, commercial and personal policies,
as well as excess and surplus lines.
Further, our lawyers aggressively prosecute and defend complex first-party
claims, declaratory judgment actions, insurance code violations, deceptive
trade practice disputes and bad-faith/extra-contractual related litigation.
In addition to first-party based claims, KRCL attorneys also have extensive experience
representing insureds and self-insured entities in a wide variety of
third-party claims, including professional malpractice and/or negligence,
errors and omissions, breach of contract, directors and officers liability, breach
of fiduciary duty, disciplinary violations and other professional misconduct. Further, KRCL
has the resources and depth of experience necessary to handle catastrophic
personal injury cases, including plant explosions, train wrecks, tractor-trailer
accidents, commercial vehicle accidents, product liability claims, wrongful
death claims and chemical/toxic releases.
KRCL
attorneys are acutely aware that insurance-related disputes can be costly and
time consuming undertakings. Consequently,
our attorneys focus on minimizing the impact of dispute resolution on our
clients, while at the same time aggressively moving disputes forward without
delay or unnecessary expensewhether that be through dispositive
motion practice or alternative dispute resolution. To that end, KRCL
attorneys have significant experience with all forms of alternative dispute
resolution, including arbitration, mediation, and other forms of structured
negotiation. We frequently and
successfully utilize these trial alternatives in an effort to economically
resolve disputes that are better suited for out of court settlement. However, when disputes cannot be resolved
without court intervention, our trial lawyers have the necessary courtroom experience
to protect our clients' interests in both state and federal courts in Texas and
around the country.
KRCL's Insurance Group actively works with other sections of the
Firm to analyze and resolve important coverage issues, including issues related
to analysis of coverage on behalf of policyholder's in connection with significant
construct defect litigation or catastrophic loss exposure. KRCL's wide breadth of
experience allows the Insurance Group to support other sections of the Firm,
and to seamlessly handle insurance issues.
KRCL
attorneys have successfully provided insurance-related legal services to a wide
variety of insurance carriers and insureds, involving:
Coverage
opinions and analysis of the duty to defend and the duty to indemnify
Preparing and analyzing Stowers settlement demands
Preparation
of reservation of rights letters on behalf of insurance carriers
Response
to reservation of rights letters on behalf of insureds
Declaratory
judgment actions on behalf of carriers and insureds
Environmental coverage analysis and
litigation
Deceptive trade practice actions
Disputes concerning excess and umbrella
carriers
Texas
Insurance Code Violations
Bad-faith
and extra-contractual actions
Disputes
involving surplus lines and unadmitted insurance carriers
Errors and omissions coverage analysis
and litigation
ERISA
litigation
Directors and Officers coverage analysis and litigation
Serving
as monitoring counsel for excess carriers on catastrophic injury and other
liability matters
Subrogation litigation
Employment
Practices/EPLI
