Insured and Self-Insured Coverage, Subrogation and Indemnification Litigation
The Insurance Practice Group provides coverage analysis, loss counselling, adjustment advice, policy drafting expertise, and defense of claims to a variety of self-insureds, insurers and reinsurers.
The attorneys at Rusin & Maciorowski, Ltd. are experienced in representing insureds and insurers under a variety of policies of insurance, including, but not limited to:
- Commercial/comprehensive general liability (CGL)
- Commercial property
- Commercial transportation
- Automobile
- Workers’ Compensation/Employer Liability
Under these policies (both ISO & proprietary), the firm handles a variety of claims including, but not limited to:
- Construction defect
- Premises liability
- Products liability
- Third-party automobile and UM/UIM defense
- Contribution and allocation issues between carriers
- Additional insured defense and targeted tender issues
- First party theft, fire and multi-peril claims
- Contracts to procure insurance
- Contracts to indemnify
The firm has also served as litigation counsel for self-insured entities and those with self-insured retention (SIR) or large deductibles in the construction, equipment leasing, retail grocery, and transportation industries.
We serve as national and regional counsel for many of the prominent property and casualty insurance companies in addition to self-insureds and clients with significant self-insured retentions. Our attorneys are frequently called upon to represent insureds and insurers in complex construction and transportation matters involving the coordination of tenders of defense and litigation of simultaneous first and third party complaints; and cross-claims.
In the construction arena, our attorneys are frequently requested to evaluate insurance policies, contracts to indemnify, and certificates of insurance to determine and litigate the relationship of an insurer or self-insured to its insureds and additional insureds vis-à-vis multiple coverages to owners, construction managers, manufacturers, distributors, general contractors and subcontractors as well as the myriad of relationships to each other as created by policy certificate, endorsement or contract. We have extensive experience in targeted tenders; and the combination of indemnification and insurance procurement.