Routinely instructed by a range of P&C, life, specialty, and emerging insurers as well as key reinsurance players, the team at Dentons remains a go-to for clients embroiled in disputes over a truly expansive array of coverage, bad faith litigation, enforcement actions, and other insurance-based disputes, and gained significant experience advising various clients on COVID-19 exposures, environmental cleanup and chemical matters, and opioid crisis-related disputes. NY-based litigator and practice co-lead Sandra Hauser is particularly well-versed in life insurance annuities and class actions, and other co-head Keith Moskowitz, who is based in Chicago, has a broad practice and is a go-to for major catastrophic exposures, including environmental liabilities, sex abuse, and war risks. The third and final practice leader is Shari Klevens, who serves as the firm’s bad faith expert and has been highly engaged insurer-side in COVID-19 coverage matters, notably serving as Zurich North America’s lead trial counsel for a slew of pandemic-related property loss coverage claims. Newly-appointed New Jersey partner Erika Lopes-McLeman concentrates on class actions, coverage litigation and counseling, and insurance defense work.
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‘The Dentons team has deep industry knowledge and the ability to deploy that expertise in almost any jurisdiction while being sensitive to business realities.’
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Key clients
- AIG
- American Security Insurance Company and American Bankers Insurance Company, affiliates of Assurant, Inc.
Work highlights
Represented American Home Assurance Company, an AIG company, in an insurance bad faith lawsuit brought by a policyholder who alleged that American Home acted in bad faith when it denied his 2005 insurance claim, which was made under a homeowner’s policy issued through AIG’s Private Client Group.