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Shaun is a co-leader of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice Group, with a particular focus on the team’s West Coast matters and clients. Recognized as one of the top insurance recovery attorneys in California and nationally, Shaun represents corporate insureds in all aspects of insurance recovery, serving as lead counsel in numerous insurance coverage lawsuits, arbitrations, and appeals across state and federal courts. In recent years, he has helped clients recover hundreds of millions of dollars from their insurers. His accolades include rankings in Chambers USA for Leading Attorneys in insurance recovery, listings in Best Lawyers in America for insurance law, recognition in The Legal 500, and honors as a Southern California Super Lawyer in insurance coverage. He has also been acknowledged by Benchmark Litigation, the Daily Journal, and other publications for his work. Shaun maintains an active litigation and arbitration practice, handling insurance coverage matters throughout California and in states such as Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, and North Carolina. He routinely advises clients on risk management issues and assists them in pre-litigation disputes with insurers. Shaun focuses on complex insurance coverage disputes involving employment practices liability insurance, commercial general liability insurance, and large property damage, business interruption, and theft losses. His expertise extends to cyber insurance, directors and officers’ liability insurance, errors and omissions liability insurance, homeowners insurance, media liability insurance, product recall insurance, representations and warranties insurance, and title insurance. He also assists clients with drafting and enforcing contractual indemnity agreements and other risk transfer mechanisms. Notably, Shaun has helped insured employers secure significant recoveries from their employment practices liability insurers, particularly in disputes over coverage for wage and hour litigation and other employment-related class actions. He achieved a landmark victory in the California Court of Appeal’s first published decision on insurance coverage for employee class action lawsuits alleging violations of the California Labor Code, the Private Attorneys General Act, and other state labor laws. Shaun’s clients span various industries, including grocery stores, manufacturers, restaurants, retailers, and companies involved in distribution, staffing, property management, transportation, and other services. He has also secured insurance coverage for claims of breach of employment contract, discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination. In addition, Shaun has represented corporate insureds in claims under commercial general liability insurance policies, securing coverage for advertising liabilities, bodily injuries, commercial disparagement, construction defects, property damage, intellectual property infringement, libel, slander, and products liabilities. His work extends to substantial property damage and business interruption claims, helping clients obtain coverage for losses from fires, floods, hurricanes, rainstorms, windstorms, and other natural disasters. He also handles claims related to cyber attacks, marine and cargo losses, product recalls, and thefts. A prolific author and speaker, Shaun has presented and written on insurance law and related topics over 100 times. He has participated in programs sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the California Society of Certified Public Accountants, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Seminar Group, and the Sports Lawyers Association. His articles have appeared in Business Insurance Magazine, CFO Magazine, the Daily Journal, Entertainment & Sports Lawyer, Insurance Journal, Law360, Lexology, Los Angeles Lawyer, the New York Law Journal, Professional Sports and the Law, and the Sports Business Journal. Shaun is also a co-author of the “New Appleman Sports and Entertainment Insurance Law & Practice Guide,” published by LexisNexis.
