The Business Interruption Insurance Maze In The Wake of Coronavirus

Mike’s practice focuses on commercial insurance, risk management, litigation management and appeals. He routinely represents corporate and professional policyholders and assists claimants in insurance recovery involving commercial insurance, including director and officer, general liability, excess/umbrella, commercial automobile and trucking, commercial property, cyber-liability, technology errors and omissions, pollution and environmental coverages, professional liability (including coverages for health care providers and medical equipment manufacturers, architects/engineers), specialty health coverages (including Medicare fraud, FLSA, etc.) aviation, reinsurance, fidelity, etc. He is often hired to manage large scale and complex litigation, particularly claims involving multiple claimants and/or excess and super-excess coverages, including providing advice on assisting the carriers to properly evaluate the case, assisting in the development of defense issues, particularly involving technical legal defenses, appellate issues and related insurance coverage issues. He works closely with transactional and corporate counsel in the review and drafting of risk management provisions regarding insurance, indemnity, disclaimers, waivers and exculpatory clauses in a wide variety of commercial agreements, including commercial real estate contracts, construction contracts and leases, agreements with municipalities and other service contracts. He also provides advice regarding insurance options such as owner and/or contractor controlled insurance programs, project specific professional liability, contractor’s professional liability plus indemnity, etc. He also assesses insurance and liability exposure and alternative options such as representation and warranty coverage in connection with mergers and acquisitions. Mike is a leader in the insurance law field. He is a fellow and Board Member of the American College of Coverage and Extra-Contractual Counsel. He was recently awarded the 2017 Thomas Segalla Service Award for his creativity, persistence, volunteerism and leadership in the practice of law as a policyholder counsel. He was selected the “Go-To Lawyer” in Insurance Law by Texas Lawyer in 2012, and has been named a “Top Ranked” Leader in Their Field, Band 1 in Insurance Law by Chambers USA since 2004. He was one of the founding officers and is a past-Chair of the State Bar of Texas Insurance Section. He is a frequent speaker at insurance and business law seminars in Texas and nationally.

James “Chip” Stuart is the Chief Sales Officer for HUB International of California responsible for the production sales of 50 plus offices with 350 Sales professionals. He also serves on the California Executive Management Team and oversees recruiting for over nine years with HUB. Chip was formerly with USI Goldman Sachs Capital Partners for four years and 21 years with Johnson & Higgins then acquired by Marsh & McLennan in 1997. He was in the role of Property Department Manager and Client Executive developing strong relationships with large Risk Management clients and underwriters. Most of his clients were household names for 20 years. He was a featured speaker on insurance issues, catastrophic risk, terrorism, changing insurance market cycles, Y2K, and several industry conferences. He served on several insurance company advisory boards. He became deeply involved in claims negotiations for clients during the Los Angeles Riots and the Northridge Earthquake. Chip served as a senior member of the management team at Johnson & Higgins for the partners who had over 600 employees in the flagship Los Angeles office. Chip is a multi-generation native of Southern California and is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He enjoys golf, paddle tennis (Men’s A Division Double Champion 1997) and is involved in numerous Los Angeles charities and Boards, serving as President of The Beach Club of Santa Monica, and on the Board of Counselors for USC receiving The USC Alumni Volunteer of the Year in 2012.

Kerri arrived at Bisnow after spending three years as a civil litigation attorney for the Law Offices of William Chu in the Dallas-Fort Worth area—and after working for more than a decade as a business journalist for two separate trade publications focused on commercial mortgage-backed securities and residential real estate. Kerri has spent her entire life in Dallas-Fort Worth and has watched the North Texas economy and real estate sector grow exponentially over the course of the past two decades. She remembers her hometown of Plano—once surrounded by empty fields of hay—morph into home to dozens of major corporate headquarters, retail developments, and luxury office complexes. A homegrown resident of Plano, Texas, Kerri is a graduate of Texas Tech University and the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Kerri returned to business journalism (lucky for us, with Bisnow!) with a renewed interest in how commercial real estate development and population growth continue to reshape the Dallas area and surrounding suburbs.

Born and raised in South East London, Adam has always been a ken sportsman; representing his high school in Soccer, Rugby and Cricket. He started his working life as a Police Constable in Central London and then moved on to becoming a “Mens Grooming Expert” (which led to him appearing on The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent & GQ). This career path bought Adam to Dallas, Texas where he met his wife and decided to settle down. In Texas, Adam chose to start over or “re-tool”, and pursued a Management Degree at SMU. Once his studies were complete, Adam moved into sales of HVAC where he touched many commercial construction projects. Adam loves the thrill of new challenges, and meeting new people and can't wait to start his career with Bisnow in Dallas.