Insurance Coverage Litigation

Insurance Coverage
Litigation

Negligent, bad faith, or fraudulent practices with respect to insurance policies, insurance coverage, or insurance claims can take many forms:

Coverage Disputes Regarding Claims Brought Under Homeowners’ and Small Business Policies

Errors and Omissions Claims Against Brokers for Inadequate Coverage.

Insurance Coverage
Litigation

Negligent, bad faith, or fraudulent practices with respect to insurance policies, insurance coverage, or insurance claims can take many forms:

Coverage Disputes Regarding Claims Brought Under Homeowners’ and Small Business Policies

Errors and Omissions Claims Against Brokers for Inadequate Coverage.

Trief & Olk’s attorneys licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts specialize in bringing claims against insurance companies for failing to pay or underpaying as required by the terms of the insurance policies. We also bring claims against and defend insurance brokers for claims relating to errors and omissions that limit policyholders’ abilities to collect under their existing policies.

Through our years of experience in insurance litigation,Trief & Olk has developed the requisite knowledge of the relevant legal principles and industry practices and terminology. This expertise enables us to properly evaluate and litigate insurance matters.

INSURANCE COVERAGE DISPUTES INVOLVING FIRE, THEFT, CASUALTY, AND OTHER TYPES OF COVERAGE

Trief & Olk has broad experience litigating insurance claims for property owners and involving casualty coverage, including the following successes:

Settlement of homeowner claim relating to flood caused by a burst pipe for
$320,000, where Allstate denied payment based on argument that damage
resulted from owners not maintaining heat.

Resolving claims for reimbursement on the disputed contents items, payment for loss
of income, and the full amount of additional living expenses for owner of a bed
and breakfast destroyed by a fire.

Succeeding after appeal to New York’s highest court in action on behalf of
wholesale jeweler whose insurer denied coverage for loss suffered when
shipment of diamonds stolen by person claiming to be employed
by diamond’s intended recipient.

Settlement of homeowner claim
relating to flood caused by a burst pipe
for $320,000, where Allstate denied
payment based on argument that
damage resulted from owners not maintaining heat.

Resolving claims for reimbursement
on the disputed contents items,
payment for loss of income, and
the full amount of additional living expenses for owner of a bed
and breakfast destroyed by a fire.

Succeeding after appeal to New York’s highest court in action on behalf of
wholesale jeweler whose insurer denied coverage for loss suffered when
shipment of diamonds stolen by person claiming to be employed
by diamond’s intended recipient.

If you have suffered losses from an insurance company’s failure to pay a claim, please contact our attorneys, who are licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, for more information or to discuss your case.

ERRORS & OMISSIONS CLAIMS AGAINST BROKERS

Trief & Olk’s insurance expertise extends to claims regarding errors or omissions by insurance brokers, both for and against such brokers, including:

Defending insurance broker whose client attempted to blame broker for
supposedly failing to obtain proper insurance coverage for cracks to
antique vase, resolving claim without payment by our client.

Securing verdict on behalf of a client who lost her business in a fire,
with jury finding the insurance broker negligent in undervaluing the client’s
property and failing to procure adequate insurance coverage.

Recovering payment from insurance broker’s errors and omissions carrier in suit on
behalf of national beverage corporation alleging the insurance broker failed to
obtain coverage for stolen goods despite client specifically requesting such coverage.

Defending insurance broker whose
client attempted to blame broker for
supposedly failing to obtain proper insurance coverage for cracks to
antique vase, resolving claim without payment by our client.

Securing verdict on behalf of a client
who lost her business in a fire,
with jury finding the insurance broker negligent in undervaluing the client’s
property and failing to procure
adequate insurance coverage.

Recovering payment from
insurance broker’s errors and
omissions carrier in suit on
behalf of national beverage
corporation alleging the insurance
broker failed to obtain coverage
for stolen goods despite client
specifically requesting such coverage.

If you have suffered losses from a broker’s failure to obtain the proper insurance, please contact our attorneys, who are licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, for more information or to discuss your case.

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Insurance Coverage Litigation

Insurance CoverageLitigation

Practices

Class actions

Commercial litigation

Personal injury and medical malpractice

Life insurance litigation

General insurance litigation

Employmentmatters

Restaurant representation

Insurance Coverage
Litigation

Insurance Coverage
Litigation

Personal injury and
medical malpractice

General insurance
litigation

Employment
matters