INSURANCE RECOVERY AND BAD FAITH:

Knight Palmer’s attorneys have more than 16 years of experience in fighting insurance companies on behalf of policyholders and third parties. This experience has been vast and varied: We have represented the largest automobile manufacturer in America, other Fortune 100 companies, large municipalities, local businesses and individuals.

Many of our cases have involved insurance companies wrongfully refusing to defend or to indemnify their insureds. In these cases, we have helped recover tens of millions of dollars in coverage on behalf of our policyholder clients. Knight Palmer has also assisted plaintiffs and other claimants, and their lawyers, in securing policy limit settlements from insurance companies or suing the insurers for bad faith when they improperly refuse to settle.

Knight Palmer’s Jonathan Palmer has represented General Motors in lawsuits seeking indemnification under a number of insurance policies spanning decades of policy periods. He has also represented a large city in Colorado, utilities in New York and an auto part manufacturer in Wisconsin, among other clients. And he was involved in successful appeals of landmark insurance coverage cases that established rules favorable to policyholders in Florida and Maryland.

Just a few of Knight Palmer’s representative matters in insurance coverage include:

  • Represented nation’s largest automobile manufacturer in lawsuits to recover under various insurance policies.

  • Represented several different Fortune 100 companies in an antitrust action against a major insurance brokerage firm.

  • Represented an automobile parts supplier in a lawsuit to recover under its product recall policy.

  • Represented a large municipality in Colorado to recover under its insurance policies for asbestos-related damages.

  • Represented the estate of a bankrupt entity to recover under a directors and officers policy.

  • Obtained a near-policy limits settlement on behalf of a bank under a directors and officers policy.

  • Prevailed on appeal before Maryland’s highest court on behalf of a large welding company, establishing the law that workplace exposure claims were not barred by a pollution exclusion.

  • Prevailed on appeal before the Florida Supreme Court on behalf of a construction company, establishing coverage for contractors.

  • Sued an insurance carrier on behalf of a person’s estate and settled the matter for a complete defense and indemnification against a lawsuit brought against the estate and others.

  • Obtained coverage for a product recall claim on behalf of a plastics distributor.

  • Represented a bank to recover under a legal malpractice policy for acts and omissions of attorneys covered by that policy.

  • Currently representing a homeowner in a lawsuit to recover for first party property damage.

  • Currently representing a company to recover for first-party property claims after a hurricane caused significant damage to its manufacturing facility.

  • Currently advising a corporate client with respect to coverage for alleged copyright infringement claims.