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Charlston, Revich & Wollitz LLP prides itself on providing highly skilled and responsive services in the practice of insurance law. We specialize in all areas of insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and claims, particularly asbestos, environmental, mass toxic tort, construction defects, professional liability, director & officer liability, employment and general liability. We provide cost-effective and innovative solutions to problems and issues of our insurance company clients.
CRW News
JUDGMENT: $12 Million – CRW obtains judgment of approximately $12 million in SFSC jury trial.
Tim Harris and Steve Soskin secured a 12-0 verdict of over $7million for client Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co., against Triton, Subs, Inc., and three guarantors insured by Travelers Ins. The San Francisco Superior court trial started May 20, 2019, and the verdict was returned on June 13, after less than 4 hours of deliberation. Post-trial […]
Read MoreCRW obtains court of appeal opinion affirming judgment in favor property insurer
Howard Wollitz secured an opinion from the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 5, filed December 5, 2012, affirming a judgment in favor of Gemini Insurance Company, as property insurer for a landlord, against the insurer for the tenant holding that liability for fire damage to the leased property could not be avoided by […]
Read MoreJury Trial Victory Defeats Claim Linking Autism with Pesticide
The Firm recently won a landmark jury trial involving pesticides and autism. The plaintiff, a 13 year old boy, through his mother as guardian ad litem, claimed “brain damage” from his mother’s alleged inhalation exposure to an organophosphate pesticide (Dursban) while pregnant. Plaintiff asked the jury to award $20 million in damages. Over two years before […]
Read MoreJury Trial Victory In Rescission/Bad Faith Suit
Jeffrey Charlston and Bruce Smyth secured a significant victory for firm clients United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company (“USF&G”) and American Specialty Insurance & Risk Services (“American Specialty”) after a month long jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. In United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company v. […]
Read MoreTrial Victory in Equitable Contribution Claim Among Insurers
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Read MoreArbitration Award for Insurer Against Managing General Agent for Breach of Agency Agreement
Bruce Smyth secured an award for client Great Divide Insurance Company in an arbitration against Monarch Management Corporation, a managing general agent for Great Divide under an agency agreement. Great Divide demanded arbitration because of the omission of an abuse and molestation exclusion in breach of the underwriting guidelines under which Monarch was authorized to […]
Read MoreComplex Two-Week Bad Faith Bench Trial
Alan Lazar just completed a two week bench trial defending an unusually complex bad faith action based on denial of coverage in a legal malpractice action. The legal malpractice action arose from the insured law firm’s defense of a rental car company in an underlying action involving multiple deaths and quadriplegics. Thus the recent bad […]
Read MoreCRW Celebrated Its 25th Anniversary
CRW recently celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the date the business commenced on December 16, 1987.
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