Corporate & Insurer Liability

When a large corporation or insurance company violates your rights, it is natural to be intimidated by their size, wealth and power. Through the use of unconventional litigation strategies and tactics, we turn the size and wealth of large corporations and insurers into an advantage for our clients. Although we are a small firm, we have a big commitment to our mission of holding businesses accountable when they violate the law.  Where necessary, we join forces with other lawyers, law firms and government agencies.  We relentlessly pursue litigation and provide legal services of unsurpassed quality.

Before we initiate litigation against large business entities, we conduct a Corporate Vulnerability & Liability Audit ™. As part of our ongoing audit, we methodically examine and evaluate the company’s compliance with dozens of laws and regulations. We search our proprietary database for complaints against the company, and for the names of potential witnesses.  We interview witnesses and employees of the target company. We search for whistleblowers. In many cases that we handle, our initial audit or later investigation causes other individuals, consumers and employees to join in ongoing litigation. We often discover additional claims and causes of action that were not initially of concern to our clients. Where companies have committed numerous violations, we create expanding and cascading litigation involving multiple parties and multiple claims that results in exponential increases in the value of our clients’ claims and in the companies’ losses.

As part of our innovative litigation process, we develop media and public relations strategies to bring pressure on law-breaking companies to promptly settle our clients’ claims. We evaluate companies’ trademarks and brands to assess for vulnerability. In many cases, harm to a company’s good will and reputation arising from litigation and its law-breaking activities, including brand damage, can far exceed the value of claims brought by individuals or other companies. While we strategically use traditional media such as newspapers, radio and television as part of our public relations strategy, we also focus on non-traditional media including blogs, websites, e-mail and internet message boards. By assisting our clients in fully exercising their free speech rights to publicize illegal conduct, we help them to be successful both in and out of the courthouse.

We handle cases involving violations of consumer protection laws, unfair and deceptive business practices, unfair claims settlement practices, fraud and business torts, false advertising, violations of state and federal false claims acts, breach of contract, employment discrimination and other forms of business misconduct. We also handle uninsured and under-insured motorist claims against insurers.