Damon Key’s Insurance Group attorneys are
knowledgeable about all major types of insurance coverage, including
Commercial General Liability, or “CGL” Insurance, Individual
Disability Insurance, as well as Automobile Insurance, Homeowners
Insurance, and Excess Insurance Coverage. We have decades of
experience litigating, arbitrating and negotiating insurance
coverage and bad faith disputes, as well as teaching insurance law,
including the following:
• We were retained by the State of Hawaii as
Special Deputy Attorney General in State of Hawaii v.
National Union, First Circuit, State of Hawaii, Civil No.
99-2756-07; obtained $3 million of previously denied coverage
for payments made by the State to settle the QUEST class
actions;
• Successfully represented numerous prominent
local companies, including a law firm, in multimillion dollar
coverage disputes with their insurers, with the viability of the
entities at stake.
• Successfully represented numerous commercial
entities of various sizes in coverage disputes with their
insurers.
• Successfully represented the plaintiff in
Mikelson v. USAA, a 21 year old student from California who
was in Hawaii to attend Leeward Community College and was
injured in automobile-motorcycle collision. His Underinsured
Motorist (“UIM”) coverage was denied by his insurance company on
the grounds Mat was not a resident relative of his California
resident father, on the grounds his claim was subject to the
motorcycle exclusion, and three other grounds. We obtained
a judgment of coverage after a court trial on that issue. The
judgment was affirmed by the Hawaii Supreme Court in Mikelson
v. USAA, 107 Haw. 192, 111 P.3d 601 (2005).
• Successfully represented individual claimants
who had been denied disability insurance coverage by their
insurers.
• We also have represented insurers of two of
the four island Counties of the State of Hawaii, including an
insurer of the City and County of Honolulu.
• For the past 10 years one or
more members of our insurance group have produced, co-conducted
and written legal materials for 3-5 seminars per year to other
Honolulu attorneys and insurance industry professionals on
Hawaii Insurance Coverage, Bad Faith Law and Litigation, and
related topics.
