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General Liability Coverage and Defense
Zelle has been resolving the insurance industry’s most complex third-party liability insurance issues for nearly four decades, from the earliest days of the environmental and asbestos campaigns to the evolving landscape of coverage issues involving sexual abuse, PFAS contamination, and the pandemic. Whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation and appeals, our attorneys have resolved liability coverage disputes in nearly every state in America, England & Wales, and a number of foreign jurisdictions. In the process, Zelle attorneys have gained extensive experience across the full range of coverage issues facing primary, umbrella, and excess liability insurers, including: the duty to defend, trigger, number of occurrences, expected or intended injury, allocation, contribution, additional insureds, other insurer disputes, limits of liability, exclusions, and rescission.
Zelle has also defended our clients’ insureds in complex liability matters, including workplace exposure, securities, technology, medical device, wrongful termination, premises liability, industrial liability, products liability, construction defect and construction site injury, and intellectual property.
Representative Matters
- Tried and arbitrated numerous major asbestos coverage and contribution disputes.
- Litigated multiple liability coverage disputes, including professional and commercial general liability, requiring coverage analysis, briefing, and trial preparation.
- Served as national coverage counsel for insurers relating to the remediation of Superfund sites around the country.
- Obtained summary judgment in $11 million commercial general liability coverage dispute arising from construction defects at apartment complex.
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Articles
- Climate Change Litigation: What Can Liability Insurers Expect in 2024?, February 2, 2024
- How Ohio Software Ruling Implicates Crypto Insurance Claims, January 11, 2023
- What To Expect In Builder's Risk Insurance Claims In 2023, January 4, 2023
- The End of the Voluntary-Involuntary Rule, December 16, 2022
The Zelle Lonestar Lowdown
- The Zelle Lonestar Lowdown - Issue 20, December 18, 2024, December 18, 2024
Events
- Apr3Matt Gonzalez to Serve on Panel at PowerCon 2024April 3, 2024
- Mar19Seth Jackson to Serve on Panel at PLRB Claims ConferenceMarch 19, 2024
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- Oct4PFAS: What Liability Insurers Need to KnowOctober 4, 2022
- Sep22Jane Warring to Serve on Panel at 2022 CLM Construction ConferenceSeptember 22, 2022
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- Oct29