One of the more challenging aspects of a personal injury action is the interaction between the  insured defendant and their insurance carriers. In a recent matter, Blake Williams of Pillsbury & Coleman represented a client who was in a car accident that severely injured a passenger. Following the accident, the passenger informed

Our client was a technology support analyst who purchased a life insurance policy with a long-term care rider through her prior employer, the local sheriff’s department. She suffered work-related injuries to her neck, shoulders, and hands, and had also undergone multiple foot surgeries. The insurance carrier, Combined, a Chubb company, initially approved

Rick Larson of Pillsbury & Coleman orchestrated a settlement of a wrongful death suit for payment of the policy limits to the victim’s family by the homeowners insurer of the perpetrator. The insured shot and killed the victim, but lacked the mental capacity to stand for a criminal trial. The insurer relied on

This was an insurance bad faith action that we prosecuted arising from The Travelers Indemnity Company of Connecticut’s wrongful refusal to defend its insured, Don Tucker.  Tucker owned and operated an excavating and grading company called Don Tucker & Son.  In 2014, a Tucker employee accidentally knocked loose a 5,000-pound shoring beam

In this case, we filed a breach of contract and bad faith action against Federated Mutual Insurance Company to recover an underlying $16.9 million judgment entered against Federated’s additional insured A.W. Miller Enterprises after Federated refused to provide A.W. Miller a defense against two lawsuits resulting from a catastrophic jobsite injury. In

Kruck v. Colony Insurance Company Pillsbury & Coleman was contacted by attorneys at the firm of Rouda, Feder, Tietjen & McGuinn to evaluate a coverage denial in a catastrophic personal injury action it had filed for its client, Harley Squires.  Squires had suffered a severe brain injury when a tree limb fell

When plaintiffs’ counsel is presented with a challenging coverage issue, they rely on Pillsbury & Coleman, LLP to provide clear advice on how to resolve the matter.  In Quilici v. Pelosi, plaintiff’s counsel was presented with just that kind of issue when an insurance carrier denied coverage in an automobile wrongful death

On the heels of Pillsbury & Coleman LLP’s landmark $575,000,000 settlement with Sutter Health, which included a 10-year injunction against anti-competitive practices, new research from University of Southern California health economists has found evidence that Sutter Health began implementing alleged anticompetitive contracting practices in the early 2000’s that resulted in prices 30%

Pillsbury & Coleman partner Ryan Opgenorth and his team successfully compelled insurance carrier Great American to defend its non-profit insured Norcal Services for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing in an action pending in Sacramento County Superior Court.  The defense was owed under a Directors & Officers Liability Policy that required claims

Pillsbury & Coleman partner Terry Coleman and his team obtained a confidential settlement for Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against Federated Mutual Insurance Company in San Francisco County Superior Court.  In Matthew Howard, et. al v. Federated Mutual Insurance Company, et. al, Plaintiffs filed a breach of contract and bad faith action