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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
  • STOLI and Life Settlement Transactions Soon to be Regulated in California
    Life settlements, also known in the industry as  “stranger-owned life insurance” (“STOLI”) transactions have existed for several years but most states have not regulated them, at least until recently.  The life insurance industry has for years attempted to eliminate such transactions as they typically are not in the insurer’s best financial interest.  However, in recent [...]
  • Should an Insured Consider Answering and Cross-Complaining Before Moving to Stay Insurer’s Declaratory Relief Action?
    When a liability insurer wishes to avoid all coverage obligations with respect to a claim against its insured, it will sometimes file a declaratory relief action requesting a ruling that it has no duty to defend or indemnify the insured.  If the insurer files for such declaratory relief while the underlying litigation is still pending, [...]
  • California Court Finds No Postclaim Underwriting in Allowing Rescission of Health Insurance Policy
    The Second Appellate District affirmed, holding that as a matter of law, Blue Shield was entitled to rescind coverage if the undisputed evidence showed that Nieto committed fraud by making material misrepresentations or omissions concerning her medical history or condition to Blue Shield before it issued the policy. Turning to the evidence submitted in connection with the motion, the court affirmed the trial court’s finding "that the undisputed facts establish each element of fraud and deceit under California law, with respect to [Nieto's] misrepresentations when applying for coverage with Blue Shield Life."
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    In a case that could prove to be one of the most important privacy rights battles of the modern era, the 3rd Circuit will hear arguments this week on the proper legal standard to apply when prosecutors demand cell phone location data. The 3rd Circuit will become the first federal...
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    As of Friday, Toyota had attracted more than a dozen class actions filed on behalf of consumers who allege that Toyota's failure to adequately disclose problems with its accelerator pedals amounted to fraud. Despite the rising litigation, the consumer claims face a number of obstacles, according to some law professors...
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    Bernard Madoff's brother, sons and a niece, accused in a lawsuit of using the family finance business like a "piggy bank," have agreed to an asset freeze, according to a document filed in court Friday. Trustee Irving Picard sued the family members in November, seeking nearly $200 million that he...