Commercial General Liability
Dykema provides comprehensive, thorough, and prompt guidance to insurers throughout the nation facing coverage issues and litigation arising from general liability policies, umbrella, and excess policies and related coverages.
We have extensive experience in evaluating and litigating all aspects of general liability coverage under Coverages A and B, including:
- duty to defend
- duty to indemnify
- choice-of-law
- fortuity and accident issues
- number of occurrences
- notice
- trigger
- allocation
- named and additional insured questions
- contractual indemnity
- “other insurance” clauses
- applicability of exclusions
- cooperation and voluntary payment clauses
- exhaustion
- choice of counsel
- deductibles and SIRs (including the effects of bankruptcy)
- insurability of punitive damages
- termination of the duty to defend
In addition to issues equally applicable to primary and excess policies, Dykema advises umbrella and excess insurers on questions relating to actual exhaustion requirements, horizontal and vertical exhaustion, attachment, following form issues, dropdown questions, exclusions, and notice requirements.
We also assist in dealing with complex settlement scenarios and settlement demands seeking to create bad faith exposure, such as demands to participate in settlements with lower layers, and preservation of rights against primary insurers. Dykema’s insurance team also regularly serves as monitoring counsel for umbrella and excess insurers.
Insurance Bad Faith Report, October 2024
Dykema is pleased to present its October 2024 Insurance Bad Faith Report, reviewing notable bad…
Insurance Bad Faith Report, July 2024
Dykema is pleased to present its July 2024 Insurance Bad Faith Report, reviewing notable bad faith…
Insurance Bad Faith Report, April 2024
Dykema is pleased to present its April 2024 Insurance Bad Faith Report, reviewing notable bad faith…
