Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP, Insurance

About

Provided by Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP

Insurance and reinsurance are important parts of Faegre Drinker’s heritage and among our greatest strengths. We began offering insurance counsel nearly 100 years ago and today maintain one of the nation’s largest and most respected insurance practices. We assist insurance companies, third-party administrators, and other insurance businesses and professionals in covering related legal needs across virtually all insurance lines. We provide M&A, transactional, regulatory and market conduct compliance services as well as litigation, public policy and insolvency counsel to publicly and privately held insurance entities. Partnering with you, we take charge of litigation, whether single-plaintiff lawsuits or multijurisdictional class actions, and defend you in regulatory enforcement disputes. We form, advise and manage captive insurers, risk purchasing groups and risk retention groups. And we understand InsurTech, Big Data, privacy and cybersecurity. Faegre Drinker has the depth and breadth of experience to handle the legal and public policy needs of players, large and small, in the insurance industry.

Chambers Review

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Insurance - Pennsylvania

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Faegre Drinker has a Philadelphia-based team with particularly deep knowledge of the long-term care insurance industry, offering expert advice on life and health insurance matters to large insurance companies, agents and reinsurers. It is recognized for its versatile handling of both transactional and contentious insurance matters. The team has notable experience in representing insurers in bad faith cases, as well as in insurance fraud matters. It is further well placed to advise on structured settlement annuities.

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Work Highlights

Faegre Drinker assisted the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in a litigation brought against it by a policyholder, concerning an alleged breach of contract and act of bad faith arising from the company's denial of a claim.

Strengths

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Faegre Drink is exceptional in its commercial awareness. The team is able to balance business needs with legal issues.

Insurance respondent
USA

Faegre Drinker is very responsive and makes us feel appreciated as a client. It delivers high-quality work and is a trusted business partner. I am very satisfied with the team's work.

Insurance respondent
USA

Strengths of Faegre Drinker are its diverse expertise and keen knowledge base in the long-term care insurance industry as wall as areas of law impacting the insurance industry, such as digital and marketing areas.

Insurance respondent
USA

Faegre Drinker attorneys are highly motivated to deliver timely and critically valuable legal guidance and information covering a comprehensive range of legal, regulatory and legislative issues.

Insurance respondent
USA

The team is exceptionally sophisticated in the nuances of regulatory issues and has consistently proven its ability to accurately provide the legal advice and guidance necessary to navigate them.

Insurance respondent
USA

Faegre Drink is exceptional in its commercial awareness. The team is able to balance business needs with legal issues.

Insurance respondent
USA

Faegre Drinker is very responsive and makes us feel appreciated as a client. It delivers high-quality work and is a trusted business partner. I am very satisfied with the team's work.

Insurance respondent
USA

Faegre Drinker attorneys are highly motivated to deliver timely and critically valuable legal guidance and information covering a comprehensive range of legal, regulatory and legislative issues.

Insurance respondent
USA

The team is exceptionally sophisticated in the nuances of regulatory issues and has consistently proven its ability to accurately provide the legal advice and guidance necessary to navigate them.

Insurance respondent
USA

Notable Practitioners

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Daniel W. Krane

Band 2

Daniel Krane focuses his practice on insurance regulatory matters. He regularly assists insurance companies on corporate transactions, as well as providing compliance advice.

Daniel Krane has the industry exposure and experience that he brings as well as legal knowledge.

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Stephen A. Serfass

Band 2

Stephen Serfass assists clients with the full range of disputes and has particular expertise in the area of long-term care insurance.

Stephen Serfass is a nationally recognized authority in this sector.

Stephen Serfass is unparalleled in his extensive knowledge of the industry and his deep working relationships with all of the stakeholders.

Stephen Serfass is exceptional.

Stephen Serfass is approachable and extremely responsive. He genuinely cares about client service and goes above and beyond to make sure he and his firm are meeting or exceeding our expectations.

Stephen Serfass is modest, generous and strategic. He is an excellent partner and an amazing role model for his team.

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Nolan Tully

Band 3

Nolan Tully is an experienced advocate who regularly assists long-term care and disability insurers with regulatory and contentious matters. He co-chairs the firm's long-term care insurance practice.

Nolan Tully is an impactful senior partner with a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise. It is easy to partner and collaborate with him.

Nolan Tully is easy to work with and has deep expertise in long-term care across a range of topics.

Nolan Tully is widely recognized for his deep expertise in both the legal and the commercial side of the long-term care practice. He is excellent and outstanding in every aspect of his practice.

Nolan Tully is great to work with, he's always responsive and immediately willing to find colleagues in his firm that can assist on an area of law not within his area of expertise.

Nolan Tully is a trusted and responsive adviser.

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Timothy J. O'Driscoll

Band 3

Timothy O'Driscoll is an experienced litigator sought after by a range of insurers to handle coverage disputes at both trial and appellate levels. He has additional capabilities advising on regulatory matters.

Tim is a consummate professional in all that he does. His legal background and expertise have been invaluable to our organization. Moreover, he is an extremely nice person to work with. I couldn't recommend him more highly.

Tim is highly skilled and highly responsive.

Tim not only has a strong insurance background, plus a knowledge of his firm's resources. He is always eager to learn more about industry issues and the industry's future. He also has great personal and professional skills.

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Sandra Jones

Up and Coming

Sandra Jones is noted for her experience assisting insurer clients with a wide range of matters, including those involving long-term care and life insurance.

Sandra is easy to work with and very dependable. She is well respected within the industry.

Sandra Jones provides truly outstanding and insightful guidance.

Sandra Jones is highly skilled and responsive.

Sandra Jones is a consummate legal professional who always goes above and beyond what is requested to deliver what is needed and will have the greatest positive impact on an important legal matter or issue. She is innovative, creative and motivated to provide the highest quality legal service with the greatest focus on positive results.

We rely on Sandra Jones' knowledge.

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