General Liability
We serve as coverage and monitoring counsel to general liability insurers in their most significant matters, from catastrophic losses to mass torts spanning jurisdictions and policy periods.
“I wouldn’t hesitate to send them work in any state.”
– Client, Chambers USA
Our team helps primary and excess insurers navigate complex claims such as sexual abuse and molestation, human trafficking, asbestos, environmental and pollution exposures, traumatic brain injuries, products liability, healthcare and pharmaceutical exposures, construction defects, and personal and advertising injury, as well as the unique issues facing insurers of public entities in civil rights claims, including those arising from reversed convictions. Our advice is grounded in the state law and pragmatic considerations regarding recurring major claim issues: number of occurrences, allocation across many policy periods, independent counsel and recoupment, multiple insureds and finite limits, “other insurance” clauses, and additional insureds.
Our command of underlying exposures, nuances of state law, and claim strategy allows us to be our clients’ trusted advisors in resolving major claims. We litigate coverage for emerging risks, and when exposures turn systemic, coordinate our clients’ nationwide response, serving as lead counsel in the most sensitive matters drawing public and regulatory attention.
General Liability
Select Representative Matters
Represented insurers in high-profile sexual abuse claims brought against major universities, non-profit and social service organizations, and Catholic dioceses, including in related mass tort bankruptcy proceedings.
Represented insurers in product liability claims against pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and lawsuits filed by municipalities against pharmaceutical companies for public health costs relating to the opioid crisis.
Represented insurers in claims against public entities and officials in civil rights actions, including reversed convictions.
Represented insurers in claims arising under CGL Coverage B, including intellectual property infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and defamation, and exclusions such as prior publication and use of confidential information.
Who We Are
Tyka is led by attorneys who have spent their careers at the vanguard of insurance coverage. Our experience, individual and collective, informs everything we do.
Our Expertise
Our practice spans every major line of commercial insurance, anchored to five core areas.