Miller Friel's Insurance Advisory Services leverage our extensive expertise in Insurance Recovery Claims to bring value to our clients before a claim has been made.

In this video Miller Friel attorney Miles Karson discusses the five most important excess insurance policy issues that every corporate policyholder should consider.

In today's post we start a new "Five Things You Need to Know" series on general liability or GL insurance. General liability insurance is not oftentimes given much thought, and for sometimes, that is for good reason.

Part two of our Five Things You Need To Know About Property Insurance series is: presentation of the claim is everything.

In part three of our series "Five Things You Need To Know About General Liability Insurance" we address whether a policyholder, or the insurance carrier, has the right to select defense counsel.

It may have taken 10 years and more than a million workers to build the 120-mile-long Suez Canal,1 but as the world recently learned it only takes 1 ship to block it.

In this video, we introduce Ernie Edgar, General Counsel for Atkins North America. Ernie discusses the debilitating and costly nature of governmental investigations.

The concept of "social inflation" is back in vogue these days among property/casualty industry underwriters and their service providers...

Best practices for securing insurance policy enhancements to coverage should not be a confusing issue.

Part three of our Five Things You Need To Know About Property Insurance series is: Insurance Company Accountants Need to be Questioned.

Insurance carriers litigate for a living, and are oftentimes planning a proactive lawsuit before a policyholder even hires coverage counsel.

The Duck Test, most commonly stated, is: "if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

Over the years, we have seen some crazy defenses raised by insurers attempting to limit their exposure for corporate insurance claims.

Mark Miller addresses strategies that can be employed to negotiate a favorable settlement.

An often-overlooked provision in General Liability Insurance Policies is the Supplementary Payments provision.

This March marks the unofficial one-year anniversary of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused widespread financial ruin to businesses across the United States.

What does 17th century piracy teach us about property insurance? Lots. Although "Sue and Labor" clauses were first used in the 1600's to deal with the loss of ships to pirates, that language is still in use today, and it is just as valuable now as it was back then.

In the first few months of the Covid-19 pandemic, a massive number of Covid-19 insurance lawsuits were filed by personal injury lawyers with minimal experience in insurance recovery litigation.

A well placed phone call from an adverse insurance company to a law firm managing partner is often the best way for an insurance company to dispose of an otherwise valid insurance claim.

Insurance Coverage litigation may be, by some, considered a last resort. That is, a process to enter into when all other avenues of settlement have failed. In certain situations, however, insurers file early declaratory judgment actions.