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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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20321 SW Birch St., Suite 200
Newport Beach, CA 92660

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

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San Diego, CA 92122

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San Francisco, CA 94105

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  • Court of Appeals Limits the Application of the Genuine Dispute Doctrine in Third Party Insurance Coverage Cases

    The genuine dispute doctrine received another blow as the California Court of Appeals held that the doctrine may not be used to refuse settlement in third party coverage cases.  The recently decided case of Howard v. American National Fire Ins. Co.,  __Cal. App. 4th __,  2010 WL 3156851 (decided August 11, 2010), involved allegations of priest molestation by an employee of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockton (“Bishop”).  American National Fire Insurance Co. (“American”) provided liability insurance to Bishop that covered bodily injury caused by an employee’s battery.  When Howard filed...

  • Insurance Commissioner Poizner Publicly Denounces Lawsuit Over Rescission Regulations

    On July 19, 2010, Insurance Commissioner Poizner promulgated regulations designed to limit the practice of rescissions in the health insurance industry.  See our blog article, New Regulations Take Aim at Policy Rescissions, on this.  Last Monday, an insurance industry trade group filed a lawsuit in San Francisco to block the regulations, which would have been effective August 18, 2010.  Poizner commented on the lawsuit stating:  “I find it unconscionable that insurers would sue to keep the Department from stopping the horrific practice of illegal rescissions[.] Sometimes I think representatives in this industry have their heads permanently stuck in the...

  • The Waiver Doctrine, Alive And Well in ERISA Cases

    The Wednesday August 11, 2010 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal featured my article, entitled “The Waiver Doctrine, Alive And Well in ERISA Cases,” in the Perspective column. It explains a very recent case from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Mitchell v. CB Richard Ellis Long Term Disability Plan, 2010 DJDAR 11532 (9th Cir. July 26).  The article is posted below with permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2010). 

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      The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s new power to take over and liquidate nonbank companies whose failure would jeopardize the financial system is intended as a "third way" between bankruptcy and bailout. But the prospect of a new regime for dissolving megacompanies -- one with almost no judicial oversight and in...
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      The Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report for August was released Friday and the news was still a bit glum overall -- the U.S. economy lost a total of 54,000 jobs. But the news for lawyers and legal industry employees was a bit brighter. The legal sector handed out...
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