Matthew Foy

Practice Areas

Insurance

Cyber, Privacy & Data Security

Green Technology, Solar & Renewable Energy

Career

Matthew Foy serves both as the National Practice Group Leader of the firm's Property and Casualty Insurance practice as well as the Practice Group Leader of the San Francisco Insurance group. Matthew has more than 25 years' experience representing national insurers at the claims stage, in trial, and on appeal.

Matthew’s practice focuses on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and advice involving first party property policies as well as primary and excess liability policies with an emphasis on personal and advertising injury, cyber-liability, complex fire litigation, environmental, asbestos, other mass torts, and construction defect matters. He also regularly handles all aspects of insurance cases involving professional liability insurance, D&O, E&O, inland marine, and life, health, and disability insurance products.

Matthew assists clients with drafting policy language and claims manuals. He also provides in-house client seminars on coverage and claims handling issues, as well as litigation planning.

In addition to his insurance practice, Matthew regularly represents corporate clients in connection with contract negotiation, dispute resolution and related litigation. He also maintains a professional liability defense practice which focuses on the defense of insurance brokers and legal professionals.

Matthew is a frequent speaker on issues confronting the insurance industry and is active with DRI – The Voice of the Defense Bar, for which he was the immediate past Chair of its Insurance Law Committee and the current Chair of its ALI Task force, which was formed to address concerns with ALI’s Insurance Restatement Project. Matthew is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel.

Professional Memberships

California State Bar Association

San Francisco Bar Association

Massachusetts State Bar Association

DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar – Past Chair, Insurance Law Committee

International Association of Defense Counsel

Publications

“Top 10” Insurance Coverage Decisions Of 2022, Defense Research Institute (2022)

Ramifications of Defending Under a Reservation of Rights, Defense Research Institute (2015)

Sony's Interview Quagmire: A Watershed Moment for Cyberinsurance, Co-Author, DRI In-House Defense Quarterly (2015)

The Future of the Privacy Offense: Coverage B and Beyond, Defense Research Institute (2014)