Insurance
Tireless advocates for insurance litigation & regulation
Nelson Mullins combines a deep understanding of the business of insurance, familiarity with insurance laws and state regulators, litigation skills, and creativity to achieve results.
- We have defended insurers in litigation across the United States in a broad spectrum of matters from complex coverage and bad faith claims to sales practices and class action cases.
- We have navigated challenging regulatory and compliance issues with state departments of insurance for all types of insurance carriers, and we have deep experience with captive insurer formation and regulation.
- We have experience with auto, home, personal lines, LH&D, CGL, E&O, D&O, excess, and fidelity bond and other business coverages as well as ERISA governed benefit plans.
Our insurance clients include
- Property and casualty insurers
- Commercial general liability and excess carriers
- Auto, home, and other personal lines carriers
- Life, health, and disability insurers
- E&O and D&O carriers
- Mutual insurance companies and stock companies
- Reinsurers
- Captive insurers
What we do for our insurance clients
- We advocate for our insurer clients to defeat high exposure bad faith coverage claims and class actions and to resolve policyholder claims in a pragmatic and cost-effective manner
- We give advice during the claims handling process to help our insurer clients minimize the risk of litigation and to better posture them for litigation should it occur
- We represent our insurer clients before the state departments of insurance to respond to inquiries and market conduct examinations and to advocate for positive regulatory changes
An integrated approach to Insurance
Our insurance clients include
- Property and casualty insurers
- Commercial general liability and excess carriers
- Auto, home, and other personal lines carriers
- Life, health, and disability insurers
- E&O and D&O carriers
- Mutual insurance companies and stock companies
- Reinsurers
- Captive insurers
What we do for our insurance clients
- We advocate for our insurer clients to defeat high exposure bad faith coverage claims and class actions and to resolve policyholder claims in a pragmatic and cost-effective manner
- We give advice during the claims handling process to help our insurer clients minimize the risk of litigation and to better posture them for litigation should it occur
- We represent our insurer clients before the state departments of insurance to respond to inquiries and market conduct examinations and to advocate for positive regulatory changes
- We understand the business of insurance and the legal and regulatory framework in which insurers operate
- We know that winning at all costs is not always winning and that early dispute resolution and effective budgeting and case management is critical in insurance litigation
- We are deeply involved in key industry groups including the insurance committees of the Defense Research Institute and the Claims Management Association and our attorneys frequently speak at national insurance industry conferences
- We are advocates for the insurance industry when challenged by regulators and policyholders
- We can handle matters across the United States with our many offices and experience serving as national counsel
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