Oppenheimer regularly represents clients in coverage and reinsurance disputes and obtains substantial coverage verdicts in favor of policyholders.
Recent Experience
- Recent representative cases include:
- Oppenheimer routinely provides counseling to clients on a variety of complex insurance and risk management matters, including:
- Helping a major lender draft a manuscript mortgage fraud policy
- Analyzing and evaluating the formation of an off-shore captive for liability exposure for a publicly-traded trucking company
- Assisting numerous publicly traded companies in evaluating and negotiating Directors and Officers coverage
- Analyzing whether coverage exists for a particular claim/loss
- Coverage issues raised by antitrust, copyright, patent, trademark and trade dress claims
- Internet liability and e-commerce claims
- Timely notice of claim and tender of defense
- All aspects of the duty to defend and control of the defense
- Insurability of punitive, extra-contractual and enhanced damages
- Allocation of damages
- Interruption of business coverage and all risk policies
- Employer’s liability coverage
- Bad faith, extra-contractual, and punitive damages in the context of both first-party and third-party coverage
- Claims handling
- All forms of professional malpractice insurance, directors and officers coverage, and errors and omissions coverage
- Commercial and general liability policies
- Excess and umbrella policies
- Reinsurance contracts
- Worker’s compensation insurance coverage
| American Medical Systems | Arizant | Avista Capital Holdings |
| Marten Transport | MoneyGram | Select Comfort |
| Thompson Publishing | UnitedHealth Group | |