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Insurance: Insurer - California

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What the Team is Known For

The skilled insurance defense team at O'Melveney & Myers LLP maintains a strong focus on environmental issues and bodily injury claims such as long-tail asbestos liability. The team represents major insurers in high-stakes litigation, as well as guiding them through complex arbitration proceedings. The firm also has significant transactional and regulatory practice nationwide and is skilled in handling complex cyber coverage disputes and health insurance matters.

Work Highlights

  • O'Melveny & Myers LLP successfully represented Vigilant Insurance before the California Supreme Court, which held unanimously that the mere presence of the COVID-19 virus doesn't result in a distinct, demonstrable physical alteration to property.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Richard Goetz
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Richard Goetz
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Band 2
Richard Goetz possesses over three decades of experience in handling litigation for insurers with regard to environmental, business interruption and product liability claims.

Richard is a fabulous lawyer who is very experienced. He is strategic and good on his feet.

He provides a unique combination of high-level technical skills, commercial sophistication, and a pragmatic problem-solving approach to complex issues and disputes.

He is an extremely experienced coverage lawyer who is brilliant at complex work.

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Richard Goetz
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Richard Goetz
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