Practice Spotlight: Insurance
FLB Law’s Insurance Practice defends leading insurers, their insureds, and self-insured entities against claims of personal and catastrophic injury, and wrongful death arising from defective premises, automobile, trucking, and construction accidents, and large-loss subrogation matters. The firm also represents directors and officers as well as professionals -- lawyers, accountants, actuaries, realtors, architects, engineers, insurance agents, and brokers -- in malpractice cases in state and federal courts and disciplinary matters before licensing boards.
The team is comprised of attorneys Thomas Lambert, Stephen Fogerty, Brian Tims, Robert Rhodes, Joshua Auxier and Matthias Sportini, as well as paralegals Christina Bennett and Kim Koorse. With decades of experience, our attorneys know firsthand what keeps claims professionals and risk managers up at night. We anticipate their needs and provide clients with vital information to keep them informed throughout litigation. Our attorneys approach each matter with the goal to resolve it in the most efficient, cost-effective manner with litigation strategies that minimize our clients’ exposure, including looking for ways to dispose of cases early or diffuse risk among other potential parties.
Highly regarded for our effective lawyering and attention to client service, FLB Law attorneys have been recognized by leading organizations such as Martindale-Hubbell, Super Lawyers, and the Connecticut Law Tribune and are members of prestigious, invitation-only organizations including the American Board of Trial Advocates and the American College of Trial Attorneys.
“The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent closure of the courts have created a backlog of unresolved insurance defense matters that are waiting for jury trials,” Tom explains. “As a result, cases that were slated for trial are settling, but there are disparate views among plaintiffs’ and defense counsel about how this is impacting the value of the settlements.”
Plaintiffs’ counsel feel insurers are offering lowball settlements to plaintiffs who are desperate to resolve their cases and move on, while Tom and other defense attorneys see just the opposite. They see that insurers, which are reserve-based organizations, are looking to settle cases at a fair or even slight premium to get the liabilities that they are required to report to superiors and shareholders, off their books.
