Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith

The lawyers at Houston Harbaugh have built a strong reputation over the past several decades representing insurance companies facing the full spectrum of complex legal challenges. No matter how big or critical the challenge, clients turn to the attorneys in Houston Harbaugh’s Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith practice group for our legal and business insights.

Articles posted in Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability

Wisconsin High Court Continues Trend of Finding No Business Interruption Coverage for Alleged COVID-Related Losses

By Tyler C. Park on June 8, 2022

On June 1, 2022, in a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin ruled that several restaurants were not entitled to business interruption insurance coverage for their alleged...

Insuring for Deliberate Intent

March 14, 2022

AN EMPLOYER’S POTENTIALLY UNINSURED RISK: INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR DELIBERATE INTENTION CLAIMS As businesses throughout Pennsylvania are well aware, there exists a unique statutory provision that provides that employers...

Middle District Decision Allows Insurance Company’s “Bad-Faith Setup” as Affirmative Defense to Pass Pleading Stage

In Shannon v. NY Central Mutual Ins. Co., No. 3:13-CV-1432, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165280, (M.D.Pa. Nov. 20, 2013), the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently held that an...

Middle District Decision Allows Insurance Company’s “Bad-Faith Setup” as Affirmative Defense to Pass Pleading Stage

In Shannon v. NY Central Mutual Ins. Co., No. 3:13-CV-1432, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 165280, (M.D.Pa. Nov. 20, 2013), the Middle District of Pennsylvania recently held that an...

Text Messages Found Sufficient to Evidence Construction Contract

In February of 2016, the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County issued its opinion in Dietrick v. Fulciniti, PICS Case No. 16-0370 (C.P. Northampton Feb. 18, 2016)...

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Alan S. Miller - Practice Chair

Alan has more than thirty-eight years of experience in complex litigation and counseling, concentrating in the areas of environmental law, insurance coverage and bad faith, and commercial litigation. He chairs the firm’s Environmental and Energy Law practice and the Insurance Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation Practice.

Alan’s environmental law practice has involved counseling, litigation and alternative dispute resolution of matters involving municipal, residual, and hazardous waste permitting and compliance, contribution and cost recovery actions under CERCLA and related state statutes, claims for natural resource damages, contamination from leaking underground storage tanks, air and water pollution regulatory permitting and enforcement actions, oil and gas drilling compliance and transactions, and real estate transactions involving contaminated and recycled industrial sites.