RDB represents professional liability insurers offering policies for accountants, lawyers, designers (such as architects and engineers), and other professionals and their employers. Our lawyers have extensive experience representing insurers regarding a number of issues in a wide variety of litigation throughout the country. Characteristics of our practice include:

• We represent insurers in numerous matters raising coverage and related issues under malpractice policies.
• We act as “special counsel” to provide an independent assessment of the merits of legal malpractice claims.
• Our work with insurers covering design professionals includes matters involving multiple professionals, actual or potential conflicts among design professionals and insurers, and the “project” insurance policies frequently utilized on large public projects.
• We provide advice and assistance to defense counsel in particularly difficult cases, and on occasion step in for defense counsel in handling settlement negotiations.
• We assist our insurance clients’ underwriters in drafting, revising, and reviewing policy forms and endorsements, analyzing potential exposures, and assisting in the development of new approaches for dealing with emerging issues.
• We often represent carriers facing concurrent threats of bad faith from insureds and inflated settlement demands from claimants or collusive consent judgments.
• Our experience in litigated matters -- in which we often are called upon by clients who already have suffered adverse results at trial -- has literally spanned the country from Boston to Honolulu and from Alaska to Texas.

In these matters, as in all our representations, we work closely with our insurer clients to swiftly and confidentially settle matters on favorable terms before litigation arises. If litigation is warranted, we have the experience necessary to represent our clients’ best interests effectively and to achieve favorable results.