Serving the Insurance and Business Community

Provizer & Phillips, P.C., meets the diverse needs of the insurance and business community by providing a wide range
of legal services and solutions for:

  • Primary Insurers
  • Excess Insurers
  • Reinsurers
  • Risk Managers
  • Captive Managers
  • Self-Insureds
  • Risk-Retention Groups
  • Specialty Companies
  • Professionals
  • Contractors
  • Property Owners and Managers
 

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Complex Commercial Litigation

The handling of Complex Commercial Litigation requires skills and expertise beyond those needed for the routine injury case.

Provizer & Phillips, P.C., has a long and successful track record
of defending many types of complex commercial litigation, such as:

  • Construction Defect Litigation
  • Environmental Clean Up, Contribution, and Regulatory Actions
  • Employee Benefit and ERISA Disputes
  • Insurance Coverage Disputes
  • Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, and Civil Rights Claims
  • Class Actions and Mass Tort Litigation
  • Latent and Progressive Injury and Damage Claims
  • Business Torts
 

Professional Liability Claims

Provizer & Phillips, P.C., prides itself on the high-quality, aggressive and cost-effective defense it provides to its professional clientele.

With its staff of experienced and well-trained litigators, P & P delivers the best-possible defense to professionals:

  • Accountants and Actuaries
  • Architecture Engineering and Surveyors
  • Benefit Plan Administration
  • Doctors, Dentist and other Health Professionals
  • Computer Specialists
  • insurance Agents and Brokers
  • Lawyers
  • Real Estate Agents and Brokers
  • SEC/Broker-dealers

P & P offers seminars and lectures for its clients on a variety of subjects, including avoiding costly claims and proper handling of the unavoidable ones.

         

Insurance Coverage Disputes


Provizer & Phillips, P.C., is in the forefront of emerging areas of insurance law and excels in all aspects of insurance coverage and reinsurance work.

P & P has a staff of experienced insurance attorneys, under the steady leadership of its principals, ready to resolve your coverage concerns in areas including:

  • Bad Faith Claims
  • Excess and Surplus Lines Coverage
  • Property and Casualty Insurance
  • Intellectual Property and Cyber Law Disputes
  • Reinsurance Matters
  • SIR Disputes
  • Latent or Progressive Damage Claims

Its reputation for precedent-setting decisions and innovative, thorough and thoughtful attention to complex issues, makes P & P an industry leader in coverage matters.

The firm shares its expertise and knowledge with its insurance clients by providing seminars and workshops, and by offering assistance in the drafting of specialized policy language and claims-handling materials and guidelines.

         

Environmental and Toxic Tort Claims

With billions of dollars at stake, the correct choice of environmental and toxic tort defense and coverage counsel can provide economic benefits to insurers.

Provizer & Phillips, P.C., is among the select firms nationwide with the expertise to vigorously defend both toxic tort and environmental claims and litigate the complex insurance coverage disputes generated by those claims. With the aid of a staff with specialized training and experience in are as such as
Biochemistry and Mathematics, P & P handles the tough toxic
tort issues:

  • Exposure, Dosage and Causation
  • Fear and Increased Risk Claims
  • Medical Monitoring Claims
  • Reliability and Admissibility of Scientific Opinions

In the growing environmental claims arena, P & P tackles EPA and state cleanup claims, private cost-recovery and contribution actions, class actions, UST claims, RCRA and other regulatory and enforcement actions.

Coverage is hotly contested for many of these claims. P & P has wide-ranging expertise to litigate coverage disputes around the nation and for all types of policy forms including: CGL occurrence and claims-made policies; PLL and EIL forms; excess, manuscript and specialty lines coverage; and first-party coverage.

         

Special Projects and Audits


Even the most careful and conscientious claims executive sometimes finds himself in the midst of a situation that has spun out of control. At these moments, the ability to gather the facts quickly and measure the damage is often the difference between success or failure.

Provizer & Phillips, P.C., is ready to respond to this need. Experience with such problems has taught the firm the value to
its clients of the ability to quickly and effectively move on the
“hot” problems. P & P stands ready to assemble a task force specially designed to bring the knowledge and experience necessary to gain mastery over those seemingly out-of-control situations.
Under the guidance of its principals, P & P can quench the fires created by:

  • Bad-Faith Dilemmas
  • Eleventh-Hour Settlement Attempts
  • Out-of-Control Cost Concerns
  • Runaway Verdicts
         

General Civil Litigation Defense


The effective defense of claims requires excellent litigation skills, judgment and knowledge of the law. Provizer & Phillips, P.C., has long been recognized as a firm of tenacious and aggressive litigators prepared to do the utmost to defend their clients.

Its principals guide a highly qualified staff of attorneys that gives painstaking care to each litigation matter, covering a range of legal areas such as:

  • Premises Liability
  • Discrimination and Employment Disputes
  • Environmental and Toxic Torts
  • Municipal and Governmental Liability
  • Police Misconduct
  • Product and Drug Liability
  • Automobile and Trucking Liability


Attorneys and staff with technical and specialized training in areas such as Biochemistry and Mathematics add a great advantage in handling cases in all areas.

A successful defense is one that not only wins, but is cost-effective. There are occasions when negotiation and settlement will provide more favorable results than litigating to verdict.

Evaluating claims and negotiating favorable settlements, when prudent, are tasks that
P & P litigators are well-equipped to handle.