TittmannWeix

Managing Partner and General Counsel: Raymond Tittmann

Tel: (213) 550-5230

Email: [email protected]

Managing Partner: Louisa Weix

Tel: (415) 851-8315

Email: [email protected]

Firm Overview:

TittmannWeix is a full-service insurance law firm advising carriers on a wide range of claims, from the simple to the most complex, from first notice and monitoring to dispute resolution, through coverage litigation, trial, and appeal. The firm handles a variety of insurance products with specialties in cyber and ransomware, media and copyright, and shared transportation in the gig economy context. TittmannWeix distinguishes itself with the motto effective, creative, and responsive.

Main Areas of Practice:

Monitoring and Counseling - TittmannWeix’s monitoring practice focuses on early assessment of coverage and potential liability, which ensures clients have the information needed to set expectations internally and with their insureds. TittmannWeix recognizes the importance of maintaining excellent relationships with insureds, brokers, and policyholder counsel in furtherance of their clients’ commercial relationships and goals. The firm handles matters under a wide variety of policies including Cyber, Technology, Media, Professional Liability, General Liability, Healthcare, and Gig-economy policies. In the Cyber, Technology, and Media contex, TittmannWeix is engaging on emerging risks including AI and claims involving online risks to children including headline grabbing gaming and social media addiction claims. We are retained on our clients most sophisticated technology accounts and most difficult intellectual property claims because of our deep understanding of both the insurance and underlying substantive law. TittmannWeix also handles the most significant claims around the country for the leaders in the gig economy, including DoorDash, Instacart, and Shipt. These fleet auto policies define a term of coverage based on the drivers’ use of the company’s smart phone applications, and have no precedent, raising complicated coverage issues as gig economy drivers swap from app to app, or operate several simultaneously, especially in a vague legal environment relating to their employment status. Many of these claims involve fatal injuries above policy limits, requiring swift and aggressive action to comply with complicated duty to settle standards across jurisdictions.

Dispute resolution and Investigation - It is unusual if not unprecedented to find a firm that lists “Dispute Resolution” as a practice area. TittmannWeix spends a plurality of its time avoiding or minimizing litigation for its clients, recognizing that the greatest value the firm can provide is usually in closing claims rather than escalating them. Carriers will be hard-pressed to find a firm more dedicated to minimizing legal spend than TittmannWeix. TittmannWeix is happy to engage in litigation and prevail, as it usually does, but the firm’s extensive experience has taught that the best economic strategy for its clients is almost always to de-escalate and achieve resolution. Its clients will testify, happily, that TittmannWeix is adept at finding creative mechanisms to accomplish resolution, including early settlement analyses and mediations, cross-motions for summary judgment on stipulated facts, Coblentz agreements, and aggressive use of a primary carrier’s right of settlement. Perhaps above all else, TittmannWeix prides itself on reducing its clients’ legal spend.

Coverage Litigation and appeals - TittmannWeix has a deep litigation bench. Every attorney in the office began their career litigating disputes and knows what it takes to win. TittmannWeix has litigated virtually every material clause in standard ISO general liability policies, with impressive success. The firm seeks creative solutions to avoid extensive litigation by working with any of the many implicated parties with whom there may be a common interest, whether that be the policyholder, plaintiff, joint tortfeasor, additional insured carrier, or excess carrier. While TittmannWeix strives for early resolution, when circumstances necessitate, TittmannWeix lawyers know how to, and have, litigated aggressively – and with resounding success – on matters worth millions or billions of dollars. In every litigated matter, TittmannWeix is strategically focused on the long game, ensuring that its clients prevail on the issues that matter most to their business.