Mazzola Lindstrom’s Insurance team has provided legal services to all sectors of the insurance industry for decades. Our lawyers have advised insurers through their most complex insurance coverage disputes and defended insureds in claims involving serious and complex high-exposure losses, helping guide both policy holders and brokers through large “bet-the-company” disputes. The team often serves as in-house counsel to insurers and has assisted and advised on underwriting, claims handling, policy drafting, and product development.
Coverage
Our lawyers have decades of experience with insurance coverage. We are regularly called upon by insurers, excess insurers, re-insurers, policyholders, and brokers for legal advice in their most complex coverage matters. When a matter needs to be litigated, our attorneys have the experience and know-how to handle even the most sensitive coverage disputes. Our team combines its in-depth and significant knowledge of insurance laws and regulations with its years of court room experience in disputes regarding bad faith, declaratory judgment, and breach of insurance contract.
Defense
Many insurers, and their policyholders, look to Mazzola Lindstrom to defend their interests. We have experience at the trial and appellate level in resolving serious, complex claims, and have served as defense counsel in matters involving general liability, property losses, errors and omissions, professional negligence, premises liability, and employment matters.
Subrogation
The Mazzola Lindstrom team is seen by many of our insurer clients as their “go to” lawyers for subrogation needs. Our team has handled hundreds of subrogation matters over the years with combined values well into the hundreds of millions of dollars. We have successfully handled subrogation claims for property, marine, cargo, specie, art, trade credit and export, and inland marine insurers.
Counseling
Mazzola Lindstrom lawyers have been counseling insurers, brokers, and insureds with respect to underwriting, claims, insurance product development, and policy wording issues for decades. Our lawyers have provided regulatory advice and worked with insurers to bring to new products to market. We have drafted insurance policy wordings and endorsements for the general liability, construction, errors and omissions, professional negligence, and employment markets. Our attorneys have worked with and assisted our clients with the procurement of specialized insurances to protect their business.
Trade Credit
Our team of lawyers at Mazzola Lindstrom have unique experience and highly developed skills representing trade credit insurers in both their domestic and international matters. We have experience in representing their interests and those of their insureds in mediation, arbitration, and trial. We are often called upon to provide coverage and regulatory advice, as well as assistance with recoveries where necessary. Our team is fully versed in the nuances and subtleties of international trade credit insurance.