Kenneth A. Remson

Kenneth A. Remson has more than 30 years of experience handling complex insurance coverage claims in jurisdictions across the country. He has represented large national and international insurers and policyholders in insurance coverage issues and disputes regarding commercial, personal lines, and excess policies. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of errors and omissions; directors and officers; environmental liability; construction defects; employment practices liability; cyber security; business interruption; and aviation matters.

Ken draws on experience as a deputy attorney general for the state of Hawaii in the Civil Recoveries Division, where he represented the state’s agencies, departments, and employees in construction disputes, insurance coverage, class actions, collections, and other complex claims. He also served as a clerk to the Hon. Andrew J. Kleinfeld in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.

Ken provides comprehensive insurance coverage and litigation counsel to regional, national, and global insurers. He draws on significant experience representing insurers, policyholders, and major corporations in first-party catastrophe property claims and class actions. Representative matters include:

• Represented a defense shipbuilder in the largest private Hurricane Katrina claim, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars
• Represented a major software company in a multimillion-dollar case involving London-based arbitration
• Represented a major Los Angeles archdiocese in a multimillion-dollar sex abuse case
• Represented a national restaurant chain in wage-and-hour class actions and recovered defense costs and portion of settlements in a unanimous arbitration decision involving EPL insurance coverage
• Represented a utility in a gas plant claim in a month-long jury trial, recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars for the client