Biography

Jason Chorley represents insurers and reinsurers in first- and third-party complex insurance coverage disputes and litigation. His litigation practice is focused on disputes pertaining to general liability, commercial property, D&O, employment liability, and life insurance policies, specifically extracontractual claims for bad faith. These disputes involve advertising injuries, construction defects, property damage, environmental claims, and tort litigation. Mr. Chorley has been a part of teams that have litigated a range of issues, and provides a particular expertise in damage analysis and assessments of liability exposure, which has often lead to favorable settlements.

The recent matters Mr. Chorley has been involved with include:

• Representation of a group of reinsurers in the favorable arbitration of a railroad loss exceeding $100 million.
• Obtaining summary judgment ruling that the property-casualty insurer’s policies’ personal injury and bodily injury coverage terms did not create a potential for coverage for underlying allegations of conspiracy and fraud arising out of an alleged scheme to underpay uninsured/under-insured motorist benefits.
• Litigating and favorably settling several duty-to-defend cases arising from trademark and patent infringement claims.
• Litigating and favorably settling a bad faith life insurance matter with consequential damage claims exceeding a million dollars.
• Providing analysis of past and future damage exposure to claims arising from a superfund clean-up and related litigation.
• Favorably settling product defect claims resulting in personal injuries on behalf of automobile manufacturer prior to litigation.

Publications and Presentations

• Co-Presented, “Overview of E-Discovery in California,” co-presented with Sedgwick partner Matthew Lovell (January 2013).
• Co-Author, “How To Handle Life Insurance Interpleaders,” co-authored with Sedgwick partner Alex Potente, Law360 (October 18, 2012).
• Author, “Insured Loses Bet on ‘Sole Negligence’ Language,” Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Update (May 2011).
• Co-Author, “Overview of Changes in California Insurance Law for 2011,” The San Francisco Daily Journal (January 10, 2011).
• Author, “Insured’s Income During Partially Resumed Operations Reduces Charges and Expenses Claim,” Sedgwick’s Insurance Law Update (October 2010).
• Co-Author, "Rundown of New Laws in the Insurance Industry," Daily Journal (March 3, 2010).