Insurance Coverage
Insurer Defense in Coverage Claims Nationwide
Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial's Insurance Coverage Practice Group has a proven reco
rd of success on behalf of insurers in complex insurance coverage cases.
Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial serves as national coverage counsel for several large insurers. Its attorneys have handled coverage claims in more than 30 states.
The Firm’s clients include primary insurers, umbrella and excess insurers, and re-insurers. It provides counsel on the applicability of insurance to particular claims and prepares coverage opinions on appropriate action in response to insurance claims. The Firm represents insurance companies in litigation over the rights and obligations of insurers and the insured for multiple insurance lines, including:
- General liability
- Professional liability
- Directors and officers
- Commercial property
- Fire
- Personal auto
- Life
- Umbrella Liability
- Excess
Recent Insurance Coverage Cases
- Service as national coordinating counsel for large liability insurers in cases arising under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (47 U.S.C. § 227) in Missouri, Arizona, West Virginia, Georgia and claims nationwide.
- Service on the arbitration panel deciding a dispute between a major textile manufacturer and a consortium of 33 property carriers over a fire that led to one of the largest property insurance claims ever litigated.
- Favorable settlement for a first-party property carrier in a $50 million coverage action alleging bad faith failure to pay a claim.
- Favorable federal court order in Texas in multimillion-dollar coverage dispute, precluding the insured from obtaining a key deposition.
- Summary judgment in favor of a life insurance company on claims of bad faith and failure to notify on policy cancellation for non-payment.
- Summary judgment in favor of a property insurer for alleged bad faith and failure to pay a claim arising from vandalism.
View a copy of Agreements to Idemnify & General Liability Insurance: A Fifty State Survey.