Practices

Insurance

Why Cooley

Cooley’s insurance team has significant experience helping clients successfully navigate the full spectrum of insurance needs, ranging from coverage placement and advice to litigation and other transactions. We represent policyholders from numerous industries, including Fortune 500 companies.

Cooley’s lawyers advise on, handle and litigate claims for clients involving virtually every type of commercial insurance policy, including:

  • First-party insurance – such as cyber risk, property, business interruption, builders’ risk, warranty, event cancellation, political risk, kidnap and ransom (K&R), crime/fidelity, equipment breakdown, product recall/contamination, representations and warranties (R&W), marine cargo and trade credit
  • Third-party insurance – such as general liability, management liability (D&O), employment practices liability (EPL), professional liability (E&O), fiduciary liability, life sciences/product liability, tax liability and litigation buyouts

We handle coverage matters in judicial tribunals and arbitrations globally. Our team has extensive experience in insurance issues – including placing coverage and recovery under insurance policies – relating to a wide range of losses and liabilities, traditional and emerging, including:

  • Natural disasters and other physical loss events
  • Governmental investigations
  • Class actions and arbitrations, including by consumers and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan participants
  • Board and investor disputes
  • Securities class actions, merger objections and derivative lawsuits
  • Cyber/data breach liability
  • Cyber asset loss and business interruptions from hacker attacks
  • Intellectual property violations
  • Product contaminations and recalls
  • Political risks, including kidnappings and asset seizures
  • Environmental liability, asbestos-related claims and mass tort suits
  • Counterparty insolvency

Cooley’s insurance team is part of our CooleyREG offering, through which we combine an understanding of the impact of disruptive advancements – and the regulatory issues that impose risk and slow progress – to help our clients navigate an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.