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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

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

71 Stevenson Street, Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94105

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  • Federal Insurance Office Is Now A Reality

    On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 4173).  The Act directs the U.S. Treasury Department to create a Federal Insurance Office ("FIO")  The FIO has the authority to monitor all aspects of the insurance industry, establish Federal policy on international insurance matters, serve as a liaison between the Federal government and the several States regarding insurance matters, and serve as an advisory to the Treasury regarding the export promotion of United States insurance products and services.  The scope of the FIO's authority extends to all lines of...

  • The Continuous Injury Trigger: A Cat-and-Mouse Game

    The Thursday July 17, 2010 edition of the San Francisco Daily Journal featured my article, entitled “The Continuous Injury Trigger: A Cat-and-Mouse Game,” in the Perspective column. It explains a recent case from the California 4th Appellate District which rejected a CGL insurer’s attempts to apply a “double trigger” to narrow the "continuous injury trigger" based on the standard "occurrence" definition in a CGL policy.  The article is posted below with permission of Daily Journal Corp. (2010).A Cat-and-Mouse Game

  • Ninth Circuit Applies New Hardt Decision to Deny ERISA Participant Attorney's Fees

    Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed ERISA plan participants a big victory when they decided the important ERISA disability case of Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance, __ U.S. __ (Decided May 24, 2010)(see our blog discussion here) holding that an ERISA plan participant may be able to collect attorneys’ fees from a plan or claim administrator without obtaining a judgment in the action.  It did not take long for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to apply Hardt.  In Simonia v. Glendale Nissan/Infiniti Disability Plan, __ F.3d __ (9th Cir. June 24, 2010), the court rejected...

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