Insurance Coverage

Insurer Representation in Coverage Claims and Litigation Nationwide

Weinberg Wheeler's Insurance Coverage Practice Group is ranked Band 1 for Insurance by Chambers USA and has a proven record of success on behalf of insurers in complex insurance claims, litigation, arbitration and trial - nationwide, and in the London and Bermuda insurance markets. Our clients include first party insurers; primary, umbrella and excess liability insurers; and reinsurers. 

In addition to representation of carriers in coverage and bad faith litigation and arbitration, the firm serves as national coverage counsel for multiple insurers in meeting obligations to insureds facing liability in underlying mass tort and multi-district litigation.    

We provide daily guidance and counseling in the good faith handling of complex insurance claims and coverage disputes on behalf of multiple insurers and in varied lines of insurance, including: 

• Accident, Health and Disability 

• Architects and Engineers Professional Liability 

• Aviation Liability 

• Business Auto Liability 

• Business Interruption 

• Business Owners  

• Commercial General Liability 

• Commercial Multi-Peril 

• Commercial Property (fire, flood and wind) 

• Cyber 

• Directors and Officers 

• Employers’ Liability/Workers’ Compensation 

• Environmental Liability  

• Excess/Umbrella Liability 

• Financial Institution Liability 

• Healthcare Professional Liability 

• Homeowners/Renters 

• Inland Marine 

• Legal Professional Liability  

• Liquor Liability 

• Life 

• Management Professional Liability 

• Motor Carrier Liability 

• Personal Auto 

• Travel 

The leaders of Weinberg Wheeler's Insurance Coverage Practice Group, John Bonnie and Steve Rapp, are the co-authors of the treatise New Appelman Georgia Insurance Litigation, now in its fifth edition.

• Adams-Pickett v. Mag Mut. Ins. Co., No. CV 122-063, 2024 WL 4360604, at *1 (S.D. Ga. Sept. 30, 2024) (obtained summary judgment for insurer in a case alleging racial discrimination in the cancellation and non-renewal of a professional liability policy)
• HDI Global Specialty SE v. PF Holdings LLC, 2023 WL 6143351 (11th Cir. Sep. 20, 2023) (affirming summary judgment for liability insurance carrier for alleged bad faith liability for $54 million arbitration award) 

• Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. V. East Perimeter Pointe Apartments, 861 Fed. Appx. 270 (11th Cir. 2021) (affirming summary judgment for liability insurance carrier for untimely notice and resolving disputed choice of law issue)  

• Collins v. GKD Management LP, 2023 WL 8351543 (N.D. Ga. Oct. 3, 2023) (addressing applicability of policy exclusions and choice of law issue) 

• PCS Nitrogen, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co. , 436 S.C. 254, 871 S.E.2d 590 (S.C. 2022) (addressing post-loss assignment of policy rights) 

• First Coast Energy, LLP v. Cincinnati Insurance Company, 227 F. Supp. 3d 1282 (M.D. Fla. 2017) (obtained judgment on the pleadings for insurer in coverage dispute concerning alleged defects in underground storage tanks at several gas stations throughout the state of Florida)