Property Damage Policies: Valuing Complex Claims, Avoiding Valuation Mistakes, Managing Policyholder Expectations

Ms. Dyschkant represents policyholders in complex insurance coverage disputes and civil litigation in federal and state courts involving a wide variety of underlying claims and losses, including environmental liabilities, mass tort claims, cyber claims, government investigations, shareholder claims, errors or omissions liabilities, breach of privacy claims, first party property damage/business interruption, and event cancellation losses. She is knowledgeable about domestic and foreign insurance policies including: commercial liability; malpractice liability; errors and omissions liability; directors and officers liability; cyber and privacy risk; owners', landlords', and tenants' liability; aviation policies; first party property policies; and event cancellation policies. Ms. Dyschkant is an experienced coverage litigator with oral advocacy experience in high stakes matters. She is a zealous and committed advocate for her clients and assesses the unique needs of each matter in order to develop a goal-oriented strategy.

Mr. Herman advises policyholders on insurance coverage and represents clients in complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a focus on insurance coverage disputes. He has helped clients reach favorable resolutions of a wide variety of insurance claims, including property, business interruption, products liability and mass torts, directors and officers liability (D&O), errors and omissions and professional liability (E&O), cyber, aviation, trade credit, and political risk claims.

Mr. Middlebrooks concentrates his practice in insurance recovery, exclusively on behalf of policyholders. He also works in corporate and commercial litigation. Mr. Middlebrooks has assisted numerous policyholders with insurance recovery on a range of matters and insurance policies, including multiple matters involving first-party property policies and construction-related issues, as well as municipal-related concerns. He has also worked on claims involving representations and warranties insurance, as well as a variety of liability policies including public officials' liability, general liability, and directors' and officers' liability. Mr. Middlebrooks’ insurance recovery practice has involved claims that have undergone litigation, arbitration, mediation, formal appraisal proceedings, and that have successfully resolved without formalized proceedings. In addition to his insurance recovery work, his practice has involved construction-related disputes, and litigation involving financial institutes.