Class Action Litigation Insurance Coverage: Avoiding Exclusions and Denials of Coverage

Mr. Lamden is a partner in Blank Rome’s policyholder-only insurance recovery practice. For nearly 25 years, he has focused his practice exclusively on helping policyholders understand and enforce their rights to insurance coverage. Through litigation and negotiation, Mr. Lamden has helped policyholders recover hundreds of millions of dollars from their insurers in connection with a wide array of claims and losses under nearly all types of commercial insurance. In addition to his dispute resolution practice, he offers strategic advice to his clients in connection with maximizing insurance recovery, negotiating insurance policy renewals, and transactional due diligence. Mr. Lamden is a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel, an invitation-only organization of leading insurance coverage attorneys. He is ranked in insurance dispute resolution by Chambers USA. The American Lawyer named Mr. Lamden a “Midwest Trailblazer” and he was profiled as one of “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch” by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. He was also recognized as “Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Insurance” by The Best Lawyers in America and as a Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers. Mr. Lamden is a frequent speaker and commentator on insurance coverage issues and he has written dozens of articles and ten book chapters on topics relating to insurance coverage including two chapters for the New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition.

Ms. Horrigan handles complex insurance recovery litigation and arbitrations on behalf of policyholders in federal and state courts across the U.S. and in domestic and foreign arbitrations. She manages multiple large legal teams ranging up to 25 attorneys that span offices across the United States. Ms. Horrigan’s practice involves a broad range of insurance products, including directors and officers liability, professional liability, cyber liability, commercial general liability, products liability, employment practices liability, property, fidelity and surety bond, crime, and fiduciary liability. Representative clients that she has represented in litigation include PNC Bank, N.A., Santander Holdings, U.S.A., AmerisourceBergen Corporation, PlanMember Financial Services, Railroad Friction Products Corporation,and Federated Investors, Inc

Mr. Harckham regularly represents and advises corporate policyholders in insurance coverage matters. He has successfully litigated, arbitrated and settled hundreds of complex coverage claims. His areas of particular focus include property loss, business interruption, directors and officers liability, construction, professional liability, aviation liability and general liability claims. He also founded two Anderson Kill non-legal subsidiaries, Anderson Kill Insurance Services, LLC, and Anderson Kill Loss Advisors, LLC, which provide insurance consulting and property and business interruption loss quantification and settlement services.