ATTORNEYS. Insurance Agents & Brokers Errors & Omissions. LewisBrisbois.com

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1 ATTORNEYS Insurance Agents & Brokers Errors & Omissions

2 Insurance Agents & Brokers Errors & Omissions The attorneys in our Insurance Agents & Brokers Errors & Omissions Practice Group practice in all our office locations across the country. Either by way of direct engagement or through engagement by the professional's insurance carrier, the group represents insurance brokers and agents in defending claims arising from performance of their professional duties. Members of our Insurance Agents & Brokers Errors & Omissions Practice Group are experienced in handling litigation in both State and Federal Courts through trial and on appeal. Our attorneys are licensed to practice in multiple State and Federal jurisdictions and represent professionals in administrative proceedings before the N.A.S.D. and many different State agencies. Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is engaged in representing clients across multiple practice areas. Where appropriate, members of the group work with attorneys from other practice areas within the Firm to provide legal representation of the highest quality to a broad range of professionals. No other law firm in the United States has successfully defended members of as many, or as varied, professional occupations than have been represented by Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP since its inception. Insurance agents and brokers work today in an increasingly treacherous environment. With the availability of even fairly sophisticated coverages over the internet, combined with an increasingly diverse array of potential exposures and available coverages to meet these exposures, insurance agents and brokers are compelled to sell themselves as having specialized knowledge. The public, as well as the courts, are expecting them to provide special expertise as well. As a result, insurance agent and broker errors and omissions claims continue to grow in number and in complexity. We are particularly well prepared to meet the challenges faced by the new environment presented for insurance agents and brokers. We have lawyers who are experts in this field, who have written and lectured on the topic of insurance agent and broker E&O, and who consistently achieve outstanding results in defending agents and brokers in a variety of claims. We provide an aggressive defense, often disposing of cases at the pleading stage or on summary disposition. We are highly qualified and experienced in taking cases through verdict and on appeal. The key to our success in representing insurance agents and brokers is our understanding of the various defenses available to them. We have extensive experience and understanding of how insurance works, how it is marketed and how it is sold, as well as how to identify and understand coverage issues. This experience gives us a tremendous advantage in representing our insurance agent and broker clients.

3 We represent a wide range of clientele from individual brokers to large managing general agents involved in the procurement of specialty or surplus lines insurance coverage throughout the world. We are attuned to the most recent, cutting edge issues for insurance brokers and agents, including legal issues arising from ERISA plans, group health plans, and offshore carriers. Our firm is an acknowledged leader in representing the interests of individual insurance agents and brokers (whether acting in the capacity of retail brokers or wholesale brokers), surplus lines brokers, specialty line brokers, general agents, managing general agents and third-party administrators regarding virtually all types of insurance including property and casualty, professional errors and omissions, directors and officers, life and disability, individual and group health coverage and ERISA plans. In the event the need for representation arises, we hope that you will consider calling upon us.

4 Firm Overview Established in 1979, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is a national, full-service law firm with nearly 900 attorneys and 30 offices, in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Our national practice is sophisticated, multi-faceted and well-versed in current legal trends, while our individual state practices provide vast resources and knowledge of procedural and legal nuances. Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in nearly 30 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties associated with each practice area. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, expertise, and sensitivity to their clients unique needs. Through interaction among its practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation over multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale. At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. We accomplish diversity not by committee or initiative, but through the true and committed practice of hiring the best people for the job and consistently rewarding excellence. The success of these policies is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention and promotion policies. The diversity of the firm s client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys. With offices from Los Angeles to New York, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. The firm s culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities and the legal profession. We are committed to supporting diversity through new and ongoing relationships with minority and women-owned businesses. Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and philosophies. We have developed sophisticated proprietary risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line. Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcome. We know our clients objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client s best interest, no law firm in this country understands and better executes a trial strategy than Lewis Brisbois. We are truly client driven and result oriented. For more about Lewis Brisbois, please visit us at.

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