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Insurance and Business Litigation Law Firm

When you need an attorney, choosing the right law firm is the most important decision you will make. We founded McKennon|Schindler LLP for one purpose: to provide our clients targeted, effective representation geared to get the best possible results. Our single-minded focus is to achieve our clients’ objectives in an aggressive yet professional manner.

We are counted among California’s leading insurance, business, and consumer trial attorneys. We have arbitrated, tried, appealed, and resolved hundreds of disputes on all lines of insurance—life, health, disability, property/casualty, commercial general liability, professional liability, officers and directors liability, employment practices liability, homeowners and business owners property and liability, specialty risks, excess, umbrella, and reinsurance. We have also made a name for ourselves in disputes involving ERISA/Employee benefits, employment, construction defect, insurance and real estate agent/broker liability, trademarks and copyrights, class actions, serious injury and wrongful death, and other consumer and general business matters, recovering millions of dollars in judgments and settlements for our clients.

Our attorneys are nationally recognized experts in insurance and ERISA/Employee benefit litigation, and are frequent authors and speakers at national and local conferences on these topics.

Most of our consumer litigation cases, and many of our business litigation cases, are taken on a contingency fee basis, which means that you pay nothing, and we recover nothing, unless we win your case by way of judgment or settlement.

We welcome referrals from the legal community, and honor referral fee commitments in keeping with the rules of professional conduct.

 

Practice Areas

Insurance Bad Faith
Disability Insurance
Health Insurance
ERISA/Employee Benefits
Long Term Care Insurance
Life Insurance
Business Litigation
Class Actions
Unfair Competition/Unfair Business Practices
Homeowner’s Insurance
Commercial General Liability Insurance
Directors & Officers Insurance
Employment
Agent/Broker Liability
Catastrophic Injury

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  • Insurance and Business Litigation Law Firm: McKennon Schindler LLP
  • Insurance and Business Litigation Law Firm: McKennon Schindler LLP
  • Insurance and Business Litigation Law Firm: McKennon Schindler LLP
  • Insurance and Business Litigation Law Firm: McKennon Schindler LLP

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384 Forest Avenue, Suite 20
Laguna Beach, California 92651

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11400 West Olympic Blvd., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90064

4660 La Jolla Village Dr., Suite 500
San Diego, CA 92122

71 Stevenson Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94105

Latest Blog Entries
  • Insurer Seeking Contribution From Another Insurer Must Prove it Paid More Than Its Share of Loss
    When multiple insurers share the same defense obligation, the defense costs are typically allocated equally. When an insurance company refuses to defend, those insurers which do contribute to the defense may seek contribution from the insurer(s) that do not. Scottsdale Insurance Co. v. Century Surety Co., __ Cal. App. 4th ___ (March 10, 2010) addresses such a situation. ...In the published portion of the opinion, the Court discussed the important issues of damages and burden of proof in an action for equitable contribution by one insurer against another. The trial court concluded that Scottsdale was...
  • An Insurer Has A Duty to Notify Insured of Contractual Limitations Provision Regardless of Whether the Insured is Represented By Counsel.
    Regardless of whether the insured is represented by counsel, an insurer has a duty to provide notice of a contractual statute of limitations period.  The Insurance Corporation of New York discovered this holding the hard way when the California Court of Appeal published Superior Dispatch, Inc. v. Insurance Corp. of New York, 181 Cal. App. 4th [...]
  • ERISA Plan Administrators Take Heed
    In an article appearing in the February 10, 2010 editions of the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, I discuss the impact of the Ninth Circuit’s Montour v. Hartford Life & Accident, 588 F.3d 623 (9th Cir. 2009). Here it is: The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is certainly one of the most significant pieces [...]
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    Anyone who hoped commercial litigation would help law firms weather the recession was surely disappointed last year. That's judging by recoveries that National Law Journal affiliate VerdictSearch counted among its Top 100 Verdicts of 2009. Commercial verdicts, including breach-of-contract recoveries, fell from $1.4 billion in 2008 to just $421 million...
  • WaMu, JPMorgan Agree to $6 Billion Settlement
    Washington Mutual's estate has reached a proposed settlement with JPMorgan Chase and federal regulators that will result in the return of $4 billion in deposits and nearly $2 billion in other cash that will be used to pay WaMu creditors, according to lawyers involved in the matter. As part of...
  • Lehman Report Shows Ex-GC's Fight to the Bitter End
    Thomas Russo's old life as GC of the collapsed Lehman Brothers is in the news again with the release of the bankruptcy examiners' report. Russo and Lehman's legal department weren't blamed for accounting chicanery, according to the report. But it shows they were involved in negotiations with other financial institutions...