NLdH's Environmental Insurance Coverage Practice assists clients with matters throughout the United States. Members of this group have extensive experience as both coverage counsel and representing insurers on a wide variety of issues. This NLdH team includes a former environmental prosecutor, an environmental engineer and several former in-house environmental litigators at prominent national insurers.
NLdH attorneys regularly advise and represent clients on a wide range of environmental coverage issues involving long-tail exposure, trigger, number of occurrences, application of SIRs, deductibles, allocation and the applicability of various exclusions such as known loss and absolute pollution. Additionally, we advise clients on matters related to pollution insurance products, environmental impairment liability policies, cost cap policies, reinsurance and long-term liability issues. We have represented clients in matters related to petroleum products, benzene, coal-bed methane, Teflon, mold, metal working fluids and asbestos contaminations.
Because NLdH addresses environmental matters from different perspectives, our attorneys are able to provide clients with comprehensive advice and experience that reflect the firm's sophisticated and cutting-edge practice.
The attorneys at NLdH have many years of experience defending insurers in trial and appellate courts throughout the United States. We have successfully litigated cases involving a wide array of issues involving environmental claims such as:
- Allocation and priority of coverage
- Known and unknown conditions
- Coverage disputes under pollution legal liability policies
- Trigger of coverage issues
- Coverage issues under cost cap policies
- Dry cleaners environmental policies
- Number of occurrences
- Claims under property transfer policies
- Choice of law analysis
- Storage tank pollution liability claims
- Claims under contractor/consultant environmental policies
We have the experience and resources to provide a strong foundation for effective, results-driven litigation. Our attorneys offer clients facing mass filings with efficient, highly-effective representation as coordinating counsel.
