Duty To Defend: Tucker v. Travelers

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

Duty To Defend: Howard v. Federated Mutual Insurance Company

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

Duty To Defend: Kruck v. Colony Insurance Company

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

Coverage Analysis & Strategy for Plaintiffs: Quilici v. Pelosi

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