Anticompetitive Conduct and Antitrust Claims
Many policyholders face antitrust claims or other claims alleging anticompetitive conduct. There is often an assumption that these kinds of claims are not covered by insurance policies. However, CGL policies may, in fact, provide coverage for these claims. Indeed, the firm’s insurance coverage attorneys have represented clients in obtaining coverage for a wide variety of anticompetitive conduct claims, including claims relating to product and service disparagement, discriminatory pricing, boycotts, and unfair competition.
Class Action and Complex Litigation
Companies face class action lawsuits on a frequent basis. However, many policyholders do not realize that their CGL policies may provide extensive coverage for class action settlements and judgments, including for awards of plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees. The firm’s insurance coverage attorneys have represented a wide range of policyholders in obtaining coverage for all aspects of class action settlements, including for amounts paid to the class, to the class representatives, for notice and administration, for charitable contributions, for coupons, and for plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees as well as defense fees and expenses.
Products Liability
The firm’s insurance coverage attorneys have helped clients recover billions of dollars of insurance for product liability claims and have obtained some of the United States’ leading decisions upholding and extending insurance coverage for products liability claims. These are landmark decisions and include those holding that decades of insurance coverage may be available for asbestos and other product claims.