Overview
Locke Lord’s Insurance Commercial Litigation team regularly represents insurance industry clients in their most pressing commercial, corporate and regulatory disputes. Our lawyers have decades of experience handling unusual, complex and challenging insurance disputes. These disputes typically involve regulatory issues, challenges to a company’s business practices, unique contractual issues, or raise questions of first impression. Combining in-depth industry knowledge with world class litigation experience, our Insurance Commercial Litigation team creatively attacks sophisticated commercial problems and delivers superior results to insurance clients.
We counsel clients and try cases across the property, casualty, life, and health insurance industries. Carriers, brokers, MGA's, TPA's, premium finance companies, trade associations, insurance investors, public and private risk pooling mechanisms and guaranty funds rely on Locke Lord. Our Insurance Business Litigation lawyers focus on handling adversarial matters and litigation in the most critical areas of our insurance clients’ businesses and operations, including:
- Class actions challenging an insurer's business practices
- Antitrust counseling and litigation
- Consumer fraud and unfair trade practices claims
- Disputes with departing agents
- Protecting intellectual property
- Enforcing noncompete agreements
- Disputes between MGAs, carriers and brokers
- Disputes arising from insurance industry M&A activity, including sales of books of business and loss portfolio transactions
- Disputes arising from insolvencies, including commutations
- Disputes among and involving risk pooling mechanisms
- Disputes with vendors
- Premium recovery
- Internal investigations
- Governmental investigations, including Market Conduct Exams
Our leadership in handling complex insurance disputes has been repeatedly recognized. Once again, the Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business published by Chambers USA in 2012 ranks Locke Lord’s Insurance Dispute Practice as a nationwide leader. We can draw on the expertise of our market-leading insurance regulatory practice to provide our clients with unmatched industry expertise. Our deep experience and industry knowledge ensures that we provide the best client representation.
As counselors to the insurance industry, we have an appreciation for the need to manage expenses in a manner consistent with our clients’ objectives. We pride ourselves on delivering value and cost-effective results for our clients. Our aim is to work hand-in-hand with our clients to handle matters efficiently and in a way that is tailored to advance the business needs of our clients.