Bankruptcy Treatment of Deductibles and Self-Insured Retentions: Insurer and Debtor Rights and Obligations

Mr. Young is Co-Chair of the Firm's Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group. He regularly advises investors, lenders, directors, equity sponsors and portfolio companies in connection with their rights and obligations relative to financial distress, insolvency and bankruptcy situations. He also advises trustees, receivers and other fiduciaries charged with reorganizing, restructuring or liquidating financially distressed entities.

 Mr. Kind is a Senior Counsel in Locke Lord’s Litigation Department and a member of the Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Insolvency and the Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Groups. He has represented creditors, debtors, and trustees in a variety of bankruptcy matters, adversary proceedings, and other disputes. Mr. Kind's bankruptcy experience includes defending and obtaining relief from the automatic stay, resolving claims disputes, litigating claim priority disputes, contesting disclosure statements and plans of reorganization, drafting first-day and other dispositive motions in Chapter 11 debtor representations, and litigating appeals of contested bankruptcy matters. He has also represented defendants in a variety of bankruptcy adversary proceedings and contested matters such as fraudulent conveyance and general fraud litigation, preferential transfer litigation, contract disputes, insurance disputes, and fiduciary duty litigation.

Mr. Lamden is a partner in Blank Rome’s policyholder-only insurance recovery practice. For nearly 25 years, he has focused his practice exclusively on helping policyholders understand and enforce their rights to insurance coverage. Through litigation and negotiation, Mr. Lamden has helped policyholders recover hundreds of millions of dollars from their insurers in connection with a wide array of claims and losses under nearly all types of commercial insurance. In addition to his dispute resolution practice, he offers strategic advice to his clients in connection with maximizing insurance recovery, negotiating insurance policy renewals, and transactional due diligence. Mr. Lamden is a Fellow of the American College of Coverage Counsel, an invitation-only organization of leading insurance coverage attorneys. He is ranked in insurance dispute resolution by Chambers USA. The American Lawyer named Mr. Lamden a “Midwest Trailblazer” and he was profiled as one of “40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch” by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. He was also recognized as “Lawyer of the Year: Litigation - Insurance” by The Best Lawyers in America and as a Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers. Mr. Lamden is a frequent speaker and commentator on insurance coverage issues and he has written dozens of articles and ten book chapters on topics relating to insurance coverage including two chapters for the New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition.