Dave Walker has a diverse practice involving the representation of domestic and international insurers and reinsurers in first-party property matters and third-party general liability and professional liability matters. Dave’s practice in this regard is national in scope and has involved cases ranging from Alaska to Florida and Hawaii to Maine.

Dave’s first-party practice involves losses throughout the United States with respect to complex physical damage and time element issues arising under policies provided to Fortune 1000 companies as well as small to medium-sized commercial insureds. Those matters regularly involve manuscript policy wordings and complex national and international multi-layered placements. He also has represented both domestic and international insurers in matters arising under homeowners policies, and he has a broad base of knowledge pertaining to the standard ISO first party forms.

Dave has counseled general liability insurers in a wide variety of matters throughout the U.S., with a particular expertise in combined first and third party liability package policies. He has counseled clients in the drafting of policies, in formulating programs, in claims management and counseling, and in litigation throughout the U.S. under a wide variety of manuscript and form wordings. He also has a significant amount of experience in counseling insurers on exposures resulting from sexual abuse claims and wrongful arrest/conviction and false imprisonment claims, and in litigation arising out of those claims.

Finally, Dave has extensive experience representing domestic and international insurers in a wide variety of professional liability matters, including the following areas: lawyers’ professional liability; insurance brokers E&O; securities broker/dealer E&O; financial institution E&O, and also fidelity and crime; and real estate agents E&O. He also has made several presentations to professional associations in the United States and England involving third-party professional liability matters.