Winning and Losing Strategies Litigating the Duty to Defend: Policyholder and Insurer Considerations

Mr. Krebs is based in Philadelphia and is a commercial trial and appellate lawyer representing insurance carriers and businesses in complex commercial, insurance, and bad faith litigation. He focuses his practice on disputes involves large exposures and emerging issues of law that are likely to impact future industry disputes. As part of this practice, Mr. Krebs frequently represents insurance clients in emerging mass tort, environmental, and bankruptcy exposures. He advises insurers in coverage disputes under all types of policies, including commercial general liability, directors' & officers', errors and omissions, employers’ liability, professional liability, excess, cyber, and first-party policies. Mr. Krebs has been at the forefront of some of the most contentious insurance disputes of the past decade, guiding clients through a litany of major mass tort bankruptcies, multidistrict litigation, and coverage disputes receiving industry-wide attention.

Ms. McKenzie is based in Seattle and represents insurers in coverage and bad faith litigation in Washington state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels. She has experience advising insurers on first- and third-party coverage issues under personal and commercial lines policies, including commercial general liability, professional liability, employment practices liability, commercial auto, commercial property, and excess policies.

Ms. Kim is a senior associate in the Insurance Recovery Group, focusing her practice on representing corporate, commercial, and residential policyholders in disputes with insurance companies. She works primarily with Commercial General Liability (CGL), Directors and Officers liability (D&O), Professional Errors and Omissions (E&O), and first-party property policies, providing coverage opinions, counseling, and dispute resolution. Ms. Kim serves well-known clients in the banking and financial institutions, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, transportation and energy sectors, as well as religious institutions and small and medium sized businesses. In law school, she was a judicial intern to the Honorable Pamela K. Chen of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of New York. Ms. Kim serves as co-chair of the Insurance Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.