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Insurance & Risk Management

BD&P insurance lawyers are an experienced team who provide a broad array of legal services for insurance companies and syndicates, brokers, and independent insurance agencies.  Our Team is involved in providing advice and litigation services in such new and evolving claims areas as sophisticated product liability, directors' and officers' liability, commercial host, bad faith, broker negligence, the law of waiver, and the law of libel, slander, and defamation.

BD&P lawyers in the Insurance Practice Area are organized into teams for each client in order to provide greater depth in meeting the specific needs of the client.  The Team can assist clients in an early assessment of liability and quantum, and consults with the client on a continual basis in relation to a variety of defence strategies. In addition, the Team recognizes the importance of providing realistic defence cost budgeting information and meaningful reserve assessments with ongoing monitoring of the accurateness of those reserves.

Having extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution procedures such as mediation and arbitration, the Insurance lawyers at BD&P strive to provide the most cost effective solution for their clients. 

Significant Areas of Service:

• Advising on all nature of coverage issues
• Acting as coverage counsel
• Interpretation of all types of insurance policies including standard homeowner, motor vehicle, comprehensive liability, errors & omissions, builder's risk, professional liability, directors' and officers', disability, and life insurance
• Early assessment of liability and damage issues
• Assistance with setting reserves and providing ongoing monitoring of the accuracy of  reserves
• Preparation of defence cost budgets
• Direction of investigative fact finding
• Providing reporting on a schedule and in a format which is client specific
• Providing ongoing advice on defence strategies
• Retaining and instructing experts in a wide variety of disciplines
• Pursuing subrogated actions
• Providing alternative dispute resolution procedures such as mediation and arbitration
• Providing trial and appeal experience
• Delivering seminars and providing newsletters on a wide variety of subjects topical to the industry.

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