Insurance

About

Provided by Forsberg & Umlauf, P.S.

Forsberg & Umlauf is one of just a handful of Washington firms to be ranked by Chambers USA in Chambers’ first ever insurance coverage law firm ranking. Chambers has also recognized two of our insurance coverage partners, Carl Forsberg and Stephanie Andersen, individually.

The firm boasts a strong and skilled group of insurance coverage lawyers, with fifteen experienced attorneys practicing in Washington and Oregon and monitoring every influential domestic jurisdiction. They advise primary insurers, excess insurers, self-insureds, risk cooperatives, and other entities on the full spectrum of insurance coverage issues, providing analysis, recommendations and litigation services on every type and every line of insurance.

Their work includes the following:

• Coverage analysis and opinions
• Defense of alleged Insurance bad faith, CPA and IFCA claims
• Preparation of effective reservations of rights language
• Duty of defense and indemnity issues
• Additional insured issues
• Excess/primary insurer relations
• Good faith claims handling
• Exhaustion of limits considerations
• Environmental and toxic tort coverage disputes
• Construction defect coverage disputes
• Multiple occurrence and trigger evaluations
• Multiple claimant/insufficient limits situations