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Insurance Litigation

  • OVERVIEW
  • PROFESSIONALS
Insurance and other means of risk transference pervade nearly every aspect of our personal and business lives. We counsel clients in a broad range of coverage issues and assist clients in evaluating and improving their insurance programs. We also regularly guide our clients in navigating the complexities inherent in coverage disputes.

Our coverage work has encompassed a broad spectrum of coverage types, including directors and officers’ liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, professional liability, commercial general liability, excess or umbrella liability, and others. Our clients are individuals, private companies, public corporations, and governmental entities involved in a variety of industries. Insurers have also retained our attorneys to provide representation in litigated disputes. We help all of our clients determine the most effective strategy, whether through alternative dispute resolution, settlement or trial. Our attorneys have litigated in many of state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.

William R. Bay

314.552.6008
  • Policy Holders
  • Barry-Wehmiller Companies
  • Baldor Electric Company
  • Charter Communications, Inc.
  • Hunter Engineering
  • Interwest Capital SPV LP
  • Insituform Technologies
  • JPMorgan Chase Bank
  • Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB (d/b/a Capital Crossing Bank)
  • Maritz Inc.
  • MOHELA
  • PNC (National City Bank)
  • Natixis Real Estate Capital Inc.
  • Spectrum Brands
  • U.S. Bank, N.A.

  • Carriers
  • American Family Insurance
  • American Federated Insurance
  • Farmers Insurance
  • Mercy Health Plans
  • Protective Life Insurance Co.
  • Shelter Insurance
  • State Farm Insurance
  • United Health Care

  • St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company v. Foster - Thompson Coburn achieved favorable results for former executives of a bankrupt (employee-owned) company against a fiduciary liability insurer unwilling to assume their defense or indemnification for ERISA claims seeking nearly $200 million. The coverage action involved numerous insurance issues, including material misrepresentation, reformation, insurable loss, and bad acts exclusions.
  • Hutson v. Protective Life Insurance Company -Thompson Coburn obtained judgment for our insurer client upholding its cancellation of a life insurance policy. American Family Mutual Insurance Company v. Missouri Department of Insurance - Our client insurers reported data to the Missouri Department of Insurance about their volume of policies issued and their loss experiences in every zip code in Missouri. Thompson Coburn obtained an injunction for our clients prohibiting the Missouri Department of Insurance from disclosing this “zip code data” to the public on the basis that the data were trade secrets.
  • American Family Mutual Insurance Company v. Missouri Department of Insurance - Our client insurers reported data to the Missouri Department of Insurance about their volume of policies issued and their loss experiences in every zip code in Missouri. Thompson Coburn obtained an injunction for our clients prohibiting the Missouri Department of Insurance from disclosing this “zip code data” to the public on the basis that the data were trade secrets.