With the addition of Steve Schreckinger, Tamara Wolfson, Harvey Nosowitz, Anne Robbins, Jane Guevremont and Gail Anderson, Anderson & Kreiger has greatly enhanced its ability to help clients navigate cutting edge insurance issues. Our insurance group has a sophisticated, national insurance coverage practice. They have successfully litigated a wide array of coverage matters ranging from some of the earliest cases in Massachusetts involving multiyear, multilayer coverage for asbestos and environmental claims, to coverage suits arising from "sick building," toxic tort, construction and sexual abuse claims, to novel coverage issues under directors and officers liability policies. Our insurance group specializes in complex coverage and claims handling issues, including bad faith insurance practices, arising under directors & officers, professional liability, general liability, errors and omissions, environmental, and municipal liability policies. We also advise clients on cases involving property and fiduciary policies and life, health and disability insurance claims. In addition, Anderson & Kreiger maintains an active insurance regulatory practice and advises insurers on regulatory compliance issues.
We help clients avoid insurance disputes by negotiating and drafting a wide range of policies and endorsements and assisting clients in their review and purchase of coverage, including directors & officers, professional, environmental, employment practices and owner-controlled programs.
While we are based in Massachusetts and often handle insurance cases in state and federal court here, including notable appeals in the First Circuit and Massachusetts appellate courts, the group has successfully litigated a significant number of high profile cases in jurisdictions outside of Massachusetts, including the federal district courts in Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, Texas and Kansas, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The group also regularly defends insureds in areas such as healthcare, professional and products liability.