USLAW Insurance/Bad Faith Practice Group Mission Statement

USLAW brings together more than 60 law firms with deep experience evaluating, assessing, and litigating insurance coverage and bad faith claims.  Through our affiliation with USLAW, we can offer clients seamless access to competent, quality counsel throughout the United States.  Our member firms provide clients with the complete spectrum of services in this area, from initial coverage opinions on new claims through trial and appeals.

Why Choose USLAW Insurance/Bad Faith Law Firms?

As a practice group, we are able to aggregate our decades of experience handling insurance and bad faith claims. Our focus in addition to providing our clients with national coverage to counsel in this arena through our USLAW affiliation, is to serve as a resource and information forum, helping our members stay abreast of coverage opinions, significant court decisions

Because of our group members’ experience and depth in this area, individual attorneys in the USLAW insurance group are well-equipped to help insurers and their insureds through the process of a claim assisting in the investigation and providing counsel to protect against the exposure to a bad faith claims. Through our decades of experience in this industry and our geographic footprint, we have long-standing and beneficial relationships with the many parties involved in insurance claims, including qualified experts in the fields of engineering, cause and origin experts, accident and incident reconstruction specialists, and police and fire departments.

Moreover, our reach and experience is further supplemented by our other colleagues in USLAW. We regularly communicate and collaborate with our peers in the USLAW Professional Liability, Transportation and Employment practice groups to create a broad forum of experienced lawyers with diverse perspectives.  Together, we develop CLE opportunities for our clients and USLAW contacts, educate our group members to ensure comprehensive and consistent counsel across our member firms, and actively engage in a dialogue that focuses on the exchange of best practices in case evaluation and case management, all of which ensures we continue to deliver the highest quality representation to our individual firm clients.

Areas of Practice

Our members’ work with insurance companies and insureds includes:

  • Medical, Legal and other Professional Malpractice claims
  • Defense of Real Estate Brokers and Sales Agents
  • Motor vehicle accidents
  • Wrongful death claims
  • Products liability claims
  • Premise liability claims
  • Bad faith and fraud
  • Civil rights matters, including employment discrimination, harassment, and wrongful discharge claims
  • Fire and other casualty loss cases environmental damage claims
  • Workers' Compensation claims
  • Defense of municipalities and school districts in a broad range of matters. 

Leadership 

Chair
Thomas F. Segalla
Goldberg Segalla LLP
Buffalo, NY

Vice Chair
Richard K. Traub
Traub Liberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP
Hawthorne, NY

Secretary
Keith Dotseth
Larson King, LLP
St. Paul, MN


Practice Group Advisors

John M. Intondi
Executive Vice President
AXIS US Insurance

Victoria H. Roberts
Vice President & Counsel
Meadowbrook/Century Insurance Group