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General Liability Coverage and Defense

Zelle has been resolving the insurance industry’s most complex third-party liability insurance issues for nearly four decades, from the earliest days of the environmental and asbestos campaigns to the evolving landscape of coverage issues involving sexual abuse, PFAS contamination, and the pandemic. Whether through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or litigation and appeals, our attorneys have resolved liability coverage disputes in nearly every state in America, England & Wales, and a number of foreign jurisdictions. In the process, Zelle attorneys have gained extensive experience across the full range of coverage issues facing primary, umbrella, and excess liability insurers, including: the duty to defend, trigger, number of occurrences, expected or intended injury, allocation, contribution, additional insureds, other insurer disputes, limits of liability, exclusions, and rescission.

Zelle has also defended our clients’ insureds in complex liability matters, including workplace exposure, securities, technology, medical device, wrongful termination, premises liability, industrial liability, products liability, construction defect and construction site injury, and intellectual property.

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Tried and arbitrated numerous major asbestos coverage and contribution disputes.
Litigated multiple liability coverage disputes, including professional and commercial general liability, requiring coverage analysis, briefing, and trial preparation.
Served as national coverage counsel for insurers relating to the remediation of Superfund sites around the country.
Obtained summary judgment in $11 million commercial general liability coverage dispute arising from construction defects at apartment complex.

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