Insurance Coverage, Bad Faith & Regulatory Litigation

Stites & Harbison is well equipped to advise insurers and insureds on a complete range of coverage, litigation, and regulatory issues. Our attorneys also have unparalleled experience defending against all manner of statutory and common law “bad faith” claims.

Stites & Harbison is at the forefront of defending insurance companies in actions by policyholders and third-party claimants alleging bad faith or unfair claims settlement practices. Recent matters include obtaining a defense verdict on a claim of agency against a national insurance carrier in a nine-figure catastrophic injury case, obtaining summary judgment for an insurer in a declaratory judgment action involving a road rage shooting, and defending another insurer in high-profile coverage and bad faith litigation arising from a tragic school bus accident.

Stites & Harbison handles coverage matters throughout the country, including those of national significance. Our team is highly experienced across a broad spectrum of policies—CGL, EPL, professional liability, D&O, life and health, homeowners, and automobile. We deliver timely, practical guidance to insurers of all types. Whether the issue involves complex coverage questions or active litigation, we provide swift, strategic support tailored to each situation.

Our insurance coverage lawyers also have extensive experience in representing insurers and insureds in regulatory matters and related litigation. We assist clients in navigating rehabilitation, insurer liquidation, insolvency, and other wind-up of affairs, market conduct and financial examinations, rate and form filings, consumer complaints, mergers and bulk reinsurance transactions, holding company act filings, re-domestications, and numerous other regulatory matters.

Representative clients include major insurers in all lines, captive insurers, individual agents, local and national brokerage firms and third-party administrators.