Chris is a partner in the Denver office who focuses his practice on insurance recovery exclusively on behalf of policyholders. He also advises companies on various risk management issues, including the development of complex insurance programs and assistance with due diligence and other activities related to M&A and similar activity.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Successfully negotiated $14.8 million recovery for a general contractor in connection with a claim involving various public buildings
Recovered $12.65 million for a developer in connection with a complex environmental clean up of former Air Force base
Recovered $10 million for a developer in connection with a nationwide construction defect claim
Successfully negotiated $14.8 million recovery for a general contractor in connection with a claim involving various public buildings
Recovered $12.65 million for a developer in connection with a complex environmental clean up of former Air Force base
Recovered $10 million for a developer in connection with a nationwide construction defect claim
On behalf of a trust company, successfully recovered more than $6 million in attorneys’ fees and costs incurred in connection with a Bernard L. Madoff-related class action
Successfully negotiated $5.75 million recovery for an international resort developer in connection with a multi-development construction defect claim
Obtained jury verdict in excess of $4 million in a two week insurance bad faith lawsuit involving an insurance company’s denial of coverage for an employment related lawsuit
Successfully negotiated $3.25 million insurance recovery for multi-building condominium construction defect claim
Obtained a $1 million default judgment against an insurer in connection with a claim for coverage of a construction defect dispute
Successfully negotiated a $19 million insurance recovery for a municipality for damages arising from a defectively constructed water system which supplies water to 40% of the municipality’s residents
On behalf of a trust company, successfully recovered $1.7 million in attorney’s fees and costs incurred in connection with a breach of fiduciary duty claim under a Bankers Professional Liability policy
On behalf of a bank, successfully negotiated a $6 million recovery from an insurer under a directors’ and officers’ liability policy to settle claims asserted against the bank for alleged securities violations
Successfully negotiated recovery of $7 million insurance recovery for general contract for the settlement of a multi-family residential construction defect lawsuit
Successfully negotiated a settlement of a multi-million-dollar construction surety dispute during the middle of a three-week trial
Successfully negotiated coverage for settlement of oil spill related personal injury claim involving $50 million in alleged damages
On behalf of a contractor, successfully negotiated payment in full by the client’s insurer of a settlement in a $5 million construction defect claim involving a multi-unit condominium project
Successfully negotiated the reinstatement of a $3 million life insurance policy following the life insurance company’s attempt to cancel the policy for alleged non-payment of premium
On behalf of a contractor, successfully negotiated the payment of a $4.5 million settlement by multiple insurers in connection with a construction defect claim relating to defective windows installed in a high end condominium project
On behalf of a developer, successfully negotiated the payment in full by the client’s insurer of a settlement in a $1 million personal injury claim arising from the defective construction of a model home
On behalf of a prior owner of land, successfully negotiated the payment in full by the client’s insurer of a settlement in a $1 million construction defect claim involving damages arising from a heaving soil condition
Successfully negotiated payment by a client’s property insurer in connection with a claim for the cost to repair a college dormitory building owned and operated by the client which was damaged by fire
Successfully negotiated a favorable settlement of a $600,000 stop loss health insurance claim where the stop loss insurer sought improperly to rescind the policy
Recognitions
- Ranked in Chambers USA for Colorado Insurance, 2023-2025
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© for Commercial Litigation, 2013-2025, and for Insurance Law, 2007-2025
- 5280 Magazine, Top Lawyer for Insurance, 2017-2024
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, J.D.
- Claremont McKenna College, B.A.
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- Colorado
- California
Professional affiliations
Professional affiliations
- American Bar Association, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Former chair
- American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel, Board member, Fellow
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- The Risk Management Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter
- Catholic Lawyers Guild
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