Insurance Defense Litigation

Professional Liability

LLG’s professional liability practice serves a wide variety of professionals, including accountants, architects, engineers, surveyors, educators, insurance agents and brokers, and real estate agents and brokers. The firm provides a full range of legal services relating to these areas:

• Contracts
• Insurance
• Regulatory guidance
• Employment matters

LLG’s attorneys have defended attorneys, accountants, actuaries, real estate agents, financial planners, insurance agents, and brokers in both state and federal court litigation as well as before regulatory agencies. The firm acts as monitoring and coverage counsel nationwide and provides legal advice to insurance agents and brokers, investment advisers, and financial planners, and acts as monitoring counsel, coverage counsel, and claims counsel for insurers issuing professional liability coverage to insurance agents and brokers. LLG’s attorneys have extensive experience in all aspects of underwriting and claims processes, including issues of agency law, binding authority, cover-holder disputes, surplus lines and reinsurance issues.

Fiduciary Liability

LLG represents the interests of insurers in connection with claims made against their insureds (including pension plan, plan fiduciaries and third-party administrators) for alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. LLG’s attorneys have experience with various types of these complex and increasing claims, from “tag-along” actions, which accompany securities fraud class actions and allege breach of fiduciary duty, to complaints alleging ERISA in connection with the conversion of traditional defined benefit pension plans to “cash balance” plans.

LLG assists clients on all claims-handling issues:

• Investigation of the claims
• Formulation of and advocacy of coverage position
• Supervision and coordination of defense efforts
• Negotiation of settlement and coverage issue resolution

Financial Services

LLG’s attorneys are recognized leaders in representation of the financial services industry. They regularly handle securities-related litigation in federal and state courts and in arbitrations before the National Association of Securities Dealers Inc., American Arbitration Association, and other arbitration forums across the country. They have defended clients in numerous securities fraud cases involving a wide range of issues from “suitability” cases to fraud claims under state and federal securities laws. LLG’s financial services attorneys are also called on to represent registered representatives and registered principals.

Liability Defense

LLG regularly defends regional and national business clients against all types of personal injury, wrongful death, and property damage actions, including those based on product liability, premises liability, and general negligence theories.