For decades Lashly & Baer, P.C. has advised numbers of the insurance and surety industries on the often complex issues they face. We have extensive experience in litigating coverage and bad faith issues as well as rights and obligations of insurers or excess carriers in different layers of coverage or concurrent coverage. Our attorneys have long assisted sureties in meeting their obligations.

Also see Financings & Underwritings.

We regularly address the following legal issues for our clients:

  • Appropriateness of claims
  • Bad faith and coverage issues
  • Casualty insurance defense
  • Commercial insurance defense
  • Errors and omissions
  • Fidelity and surety defense
  • Fidelity and surety bonds
  • Fiduciary obligations
  • General liability defense
  • Identity of proper beneficiaries
  • Indemnity
  • Insurance brokers
  • Insurance contracts
  • Insurance defense
  • Judgments over
  • Life insurance defense
  • Officer and director liability
  • Payment bonds
  • Performance bonds
  • Professional liability
  • Property insurance defense
  • Real estate
  • Rights and obligations between and among layers of coverage and concurrent coverage
  • Risk Management
  • Self-insured defense
  • Surety defense
  • Surety law