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Serving the insurance, reinsurance and alternative risk sectors of the industry, the insurance services team at Paul Frank + Collins provides our clients with an innovative and adaptive service platform to meet a variety of insurance law needs.

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The Insurance Law Practice
We specialize in providing "bespoke" services for insurance clients with particularized needs across a variety of coverages, including property and casualty, environmental, energy, professional and other specialty lines. We add leverage and value through a broad array of senior contacts in the industry, including underwriters, brokers, claim managers, adjusters and investigators. We work with a detailed knowledge of the London, Bermuda, and U.S. markets. Our approach is pragmatic and we make it a point to know our clients’ needs.  

Our Insurance Law Team specializes in:


  1. Litigating coverage and bad faith claims, throughout the United States on behalf of insurers.
  2. National, regional and local coverage advice and insurance litigation.
  3. Monitoring counsel for excess and open market insurers in high severity claims with a focus on energy and property losses.
  4. Defending insurers in multi-district complex litigation.
  5. Arbitration.
  6. Counseling insurers through regulatory inquiries.
  7. Insurance policy drafting and restructuring.
  8. Reinsurance recoveries.
  9. Special projects, including evaluating changes in insurance industry standards, developing comprehensive claims handling practices, training nation-wide adjusting forces on specific claim trends/issues and delicate internal investigations. 
Consulting
Claims + Underwriting Audits
We provide sophisticated audit and management services. Depending on the client’s need or preference, these services are delivered through the law firm or through our wholly owned limited liability company, PF+C Insurance Services. Our consulting team includes insurance lawyers and professionals recruited from inside the industry, working together to provide our clients uniquely qualified perspectives and assistance. The Consulting Practice regularly audits claim handling best practices and reserve adequacy of TPAs, insurers and underwriting agents for a variety of insurance and reinsurance clients in the London, Bermuda and U.S. markets. On a selective basis we also perform underwriting audits. Our audit experience extends throughout the United States, and into Canada, the Bahamas/Caribbean and the United Kingdom. We are also experienced auditing in situations where a client suspects its interests may be jeopardized.
Claims Management
We provide claim management services, both on a portfolio and individual loss basis. Our portfolio claim management focuses on the captive and alternative risk sectors, for whom we manage a range of professional and general liability claims arising across the globe. In the area of individual loss consulting, we only handle high severity claims, acting as either an outsource function or in a hybrid monitoring counsel/claim handler role as necessary. Our experience in this role also extends to claims located around the globe. We are highly cost effective, and augment the client’s claims staff with specialist skills when needed on particular claims allowing them to maintain standards on their other claims.

Our claim management service utilizes a qualified panel of local assets to assist us wherever the claim is located, including adjusters, lawyers, investigators and facilitators.

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Latest News:


February, 2012
- Paul Frank + Collins Welcomes Allen D. Webster

January, 2012 - David M. Pocius and Peter J. McDougall Become Directors at Paul Frank + Collins

January, 2012 - Seven PF+C Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers® 2012

December, 2011 - Douglas W. Stahl Joins Paul Frank + Collins as Chief Operating Officer

December, 2011 - PF+C Employees Whoop it up for a Good Cause

November, 2011 - Five PF+C Attorneys Selected for New England Super Lawyers 2011

October, 2011 - S. Crocker Bennett Appointed Vermont State Chair for the American College of Trial Lawyers

September, 2011 - Employment + Labor Lawyer Kerin Stackpole Joins PF+C

September, 2011 - Financial Centres International Publishes Peter McDougall's Captive Insurance Article

August, 2011 - PF+C: Lawyers and Educators at VCIA Conference

July, 2011 - Mark Hall Participates in Environmental Focus Group

July, 2011 - Andrew Beerworth's Article Published in Vermont Law Review

June, 2011 - PF+C Celebrates 30 Years in Captive Insurance


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