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Shaun Crosner

Shaun H. Crosner Partner

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Los Angeles – Century City T +1 310 315 8202 F fax +1 310 956 3102
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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.

Experience

  • Representation of a large commercial landlord in insurance coverage litigation concerning more than $350 million in coverage for business interruption losses and repair costs arising out of a fire at a large commercial apartment complex in Los Angeles.
  • Representation of a bioscience company in connection with insurance coverage litigation concerning substantial sums of directors and officers liability insurance for underlying litigation alleging violations of securities claims and the California Labor Code.
  • Representation of private equity investment firm in its pursuit of coverage under commercial crime policies and fidelity bonds for employee theft and embezzlement losses exceeding $90 million.
  • Representation of a commercial landlord in insurance recovery litigation concerning coverage under a commercial property insurance program for substantial losses resulting from government closures of a large shopping center in Orange County during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Representation of large clothing retailer in its pursuit of substantial sums of insurance coverage under a cyber insurance policy for nearly 2,000 underlying claims alleging violations of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).
  • Representation of large tile distributor in connection with its pursuit of commercial general liability insurance coverage for more than 40 underlying lawsuits alleging silicosis-related injuries resulting from exposure to metals and dusts over several decades.
  • Represented numerous private equity portfolio companies in connection with their successful recovery of substantial sums under sellers-side representations-and-warranties insurance policies.
  • Representation of fast food franchises throughout the West Coast in insurance coverage litigation concerning coverage for a series of underlying lawsuits alleging violations of the California Labor Code and wage-and-hour laws, and resulting in a landmark insurance coverage decision from the California Court of Appeal.
  • Represented a large homebuilder in a Bermuda insurance coverage arbitration concerning coverage under a captive commercial general liability and products-completed operations insurance property for a series of underlying construction defect and property damage claims.
  • Represented large West Coast energy provider in litigation concerning more than $10 million in commercial general liability insurance coverage and contractual indemnity for underlying wrongful death litigation.
  • Represented one of the world’s largest pipe manufacturers in connection with insurance coverage litigation concerning coverage under a commercial property insurance policy for approximately $20 million in property damage and business interruption losses sustained as a result of Hurricane Harvey in Texas.
  • Represented a large food manufacturer in connection with its successful pursuit of insurance coverage for $300 million in property damage and business interruption losses resulting from a fire at one of its manufacturing facilities.

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