areas of practice

MWD skillfully and efficiently handles complex matters for our insurance industry clients by providing detailed contractual and policy analysis, thorough research, evaluation of underlying risks and liabilities, skilled negotiation, and effective advocacy throughout the claims process from initial investigation, evaluation of liability and covered damages, securing risk transfer, assisting in ADR, and advising insurers of their rights and obligations following trial and on appeal.  We focus primarily on third-party coverage disputes, including primary and excess casualty claims involving individual companies, risk purchasing groups, reinsurance, and fronting policies.

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MWD has extensive experience handling a wide variety of insurance policies and coverage disputes, including those involving general liability, excess and umbrella liability, property damage and bodily injury, personal and advertising injury, environmental impairment liability (pollution liability), professional liability, directors & officers liability, employment-related practices liability, and public entity errors and omissions liability.  Our team has significant experience handling the insurance coverage aspects of complex and high-profile claims in the areas of construction defect, environmental, mass tort, product liability, wildfires, entertainment, wage and hour disputes, habitability claims, among many others.