Insurance Coverage

Insurance coverage disputes and litigation frequently arise between policy holders and insurers, and Deasey, Mahoney & Valentini lawyers stand ready to represent our insurance company clients in these matters.

Insurance coverage conflicts are a mainstay of our practice, with our clients benefitting from our attorneys’ in-depth knowledge and understanding of the challenging, highly regulated environment in which insurers operate. We regularly provide clients with regional as well as national representation in addition to detailed coverage opinions and the prosecution and defense of declaratory judgment actions.

Our coverage dispute experience includes commercial general liability (CGL); professional negligence; automobile; commercial, industrial and residential property; specialty risk, such as environmental and toxic tort; and other forms of insurance. The lawyers of Deasey, Mahoney & Valentini have litigated countless coverage disputes arising out of a host of insurance policy interpretation and application discrepancies including availability of coverage, triggering of coverage, indemnity, duty to defend, additional insured endorsements, broad form contractual coverage, multiple occurrences, policy exclusions and supplementary payments provisions.

In fact, our attorneys have litigated hundreds of coverage disputes based on a host of issues regarding insurance policy interpretation and application some of which include:

• Additional Insured Endorsements
• Application of Supplementary Payments Provision
• Broad Form Contractual Coverage
• Duty to Defend
• Multiple Occurrence Issues
• Policy Exclusions (Intended or Expected, Business Risk Exclusions, Mold Exclusions)
• Trigger of Coverage

Clients of Deasey, Mahoney & Valentini also benefit from our litigators’ collective experience in a variety of additional practice areas such as appellate, bad faith, excess insurance, commercial litigation, products liability, premises liability, environmental and toxic tort litigation and coverage, class action and subrogation. Deasey, Mahoney & Valentini attorneys bring their combined experience to bear in shaping effective, cost-efficient solutions for our clients. For each matter we handle, senior litigators provide personal attention during all phases of representation and deliver exceptional, responsive service at a reasonable cost. In short, we strive to craft and deliver a superior product.

Should your organization be in need of sound legal services, please do not hesitate to contact us at your earliest convenience. We look forward to serving you.

Deasey, Mahoney & Valentini maintains offices in Center City Philadelphia, Media, PA and Cherry Hill, N.J. Our lawyers are active litigators throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and beyond. We are proud of our outstanding reputation and record.