Eric K. Larson

Eric K. Larson, Special Counsel

Phone: (415) 433-8000
Fax: (415) 433-4816

Eric (“Rick”) has been with Pillsbury & Coleman for nearly two decades. Before that he was a partner in a nationwide firm, specializing in defense of class actions and other complex litigation. His practice encompasses insurance coverage and bad faith involving virtually every type of insurance including property, general liability, professional liability, directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, employee dishonesty, and builders risk. Rick has extensive experience in litigating every aspect of an insurance coverage and bad faith claim in court, arbitration, mediation and appeal. A good part of Rick’s practice is advising clients and negotiating resolutions to avoid litigation.

Rick has achieved multiple six, seven and eight figure recoveries for commercial clients in cases involving, for example, the rebuild in a different location and upgrade of a food production facility destroyed by fire, the replacement of a university campus’s failed water piping system, the rebuild of a historic North Beach building destroyed by fire, water damage to a Marin school, tankers of spoiled imported orange juice, and alleged defective construction of residential developments in Hawai’i. Rick is often brought in by clients already in litigation to ensure that they are being given a proper defense and to protect their interests in settlement negotiations. Rick is also often retained by plaintiffs’ counsel to advise them on maximizing their clients’ recovery from insurers.

Rick co-authored the “Subrogation” chapter in the CEB publication California Property Insurance: Law and Litigation. He spoke at the national meeting of the ABA Property Insurance Section on the history and interpretation of “ensuing loss” clauses and has been a panelist for several CLE presentations. Rick served for three years on the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Bar Association’s Insurance Practice section.

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