Attorneys Practicing in this area: Alt, David M. Baffa, James F. Bates, Jr., Robert J. Bedell, R. Patrick Bergstrom, Jennifer R. Brandt, Arthur F. Carey, Scott L. Choi, Min Y. Collins, Amy J. Cornbleet, Jocelyn F. Crisham, Catherine M. Cruz, Skyler G. Enriquez, Maria G. Eversman, Sarah E. Farashahi, Ommid C. Figura, Stanley V. Fink, Matthew J. Fitzgerald, Andrew V. Fleischer, Adam H. Freud, Jane S. Garcha, Bonny S. Graham, Jr., Daniel I. Hafner, Charles A. Hartley, Katherine L. Hayes, Maryann C. Husmann, John A. Klie, Amy P. Lang, Joseph P. Licari, Mary F. Loftus, Bianca M. Madden III, Charles J. Marshall, Robert S. McArdle, Laura A. Miller, McRae E. Minkin, Jason P. Mokshagundam, Smita Moon, Cody S. Murphy, Matthew M. Nicolaides, Jr., Richard H. Novellano, Marcella S. Pozen, Joseph P. Ribeiro, Traci M. Rodewald, John E. Sarmiento IV, Joseph J. Sauvé, Stephanie A. Schupp, Eric W. Sheridan, Mark G. Skoglund, Michael T. Smith, Alicia J. Smith, Andrew W. Stoltz, Kelly L. Sullivan, Monica T. Viner, Jonathan T. Zabinski, Ellen J.

Insurance Coverage Disputes

Bates & Carey LLP attorneys have broad experience advising and defending insurers on a wide range of coverage issues, and have represented insurers in some of the largest environmental and mass-tort cases in the nation.

Our attorneys have tried large complex insurance coverage cases to successful conclusions, including Diamond Shamrock v. Aetna (609 A.2d 440), one of the first large environmental cases tried, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v Aetna Cas. & Sur., in Akron, Ohio, where the court entered a directed verdict in favor of the insurers. The Hercules v. Aetna trial in Delaware absolved our client from paying anything in response to national pollution claims. Likewise, in the Celotex bankruptcy proceeding in Tampa, Florida, after many months of trial on numerous issues of coverage involving asbestos bodily injury and building claims, our client obtained a judgment of no coverage. In Stepan v Allstate, a New Jersey case, the court granted summary judgment in favor of our client, ruling that Stepan's claims did not present a justiciable controversy as to our client's policies. On a more local level, Bates & Carey LLP attorneys have also litigated and tried high-profile Illinois cases with enormously favorable results as in Outboard Marine Corp. v. Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. (670 N.E.2d 740), and Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. v. American Re-Insurance Co., (1996 WL 501863).

Bates & Carey LLP attorneys have spent the last two decades obtaining favorable results both by settlement, litigation, and trial across the country.