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Provided by Matthew Foy
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Cyber, Privacy & Data Security
Green Technology, Solar & Renewable Energy
Matthew Foy is a Partner in the San Francisco office of GRSM and serves as the National Practice Group Leader of the firm's Property and Casualty Insurance practice. Matt has more than 25 years experience representing national insurers at the claims stage, in trial, and on appeal.
Matt is recognized as a go-to litigator and insurance industry advocate who clients turn to in high stakes cases and novel insurance coverage disputes across the country. Matt’s practice focuses on insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and advice involving first-party and third-party liability policies, at primary and excess layers, with an emphasis on “bad faith set-ups,” sexual abuse and wrongful incarceration claims, personal and advertising injury, cyber-liability, wildfire litigation, mass torts, and complex construction defect matters. He also regularly handles all aspects of insurance cases involving professional liability, D&O, E&O, inland marine, and life, health, and disability insurance products.
Matt has robust experience assisting clients with drafting policy language and routinely provides in-house seminars on coverage and claims handling issues, including best practices. In addition to his insurance practice, Matt represents corporate clients in connection with contract negotiation, dispute resolution, and related litigation. Matt and his team also maintain an experienced professional liability practice focusing on the defense of insurance brokers and agents.
Matt 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 a past Chair of its Insurance Law Committee and as a past member of its ALI Task force, formed to address concerns with ALI’s Insurance Restatement Project. Matt is also a member of the International Association of Defense Counsel.
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
“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)
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He's responsive and comes up with good creative solutions, which is what you're looking for. He identifies proper ways to come up with solutions.
Matthew is one of my go-to attorneys across the country.
He's responsive and comes up with good creative solutions, which is what you're looking for. He identifies proper ways to come up with solutions.
Matthew is one of my go-to attorneys across the country.
