Since its formation, the firm has represented its clients – some of the nation’s largest insurers – in first and third party bad faith matters. These matters arise in countless factual contexts and involve diverse issues under a wide variety of insurance policies and coverages, including comprehensive general liability, aviation, marine, professional liability, products liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, employment liability, automobile and homeowners.

The firm’s considerable and wide ranging experience in handling first-party and third-party commercial and personal lines claims, together with its similar expertise in counseling insurers on the development and implementation of tools for the fair and efficient handling of claims, positions the firm perfectly to defend its clients when they are sued for bad faith or for extra-contractual damages.

Class action suits have become more common in the area of insurance bad faith law, and Coddington, Hicks & Danforth has met the challenge of defending such actions. The firm has represented insurers in class action matters involving both commercial and personal lines of coverage. The firm not only handles insurance bad faith actions in California, but also has defended insurers in lawsuits venued in other jurisdictions. The firm has a distinguished record of favorable jury verdicts and successful appeals and its bad faith lawyers are counted among the experts in this field.

Many of the firm’s attorneys regularly lecture to members of the bar and the insurance industry on the subject of insurance bad faith law, both in California and other states. They also routinely present seminars to insurance company employees on how claims personnel and in-house lawyers can avoid bad faith claims. Recent lectures given by members of the firm include “Bad Faith Defense Strategies That Really Work,” “Aviation Insurance Bad Faith: Wrongful Refusal to Settle,” and “Prevention of First Party Bad Faith Claims.”

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